Video Games What video games are you currently playing?

welp didnt get to stream, my controller bugs out in the most ridiculous ways with DS, ive tried about 10 different pad emulators and key mappers etc etc, each one producing a new way to fuck up my night. i wonder if a straight up xbox pad shall have to be bought. pissed.

I was using a PS3 pad with MotionInJoy for ages, but having to map stuff all the time was a pain. Switching to an Xbox controller was great, as most games just pick it up automatically.

I'm using the xbox controller for DS on my pc and it is working great. is running way better even on my so so laptop compared to my dust choked old xbox

I honestly never thought I would get addicted to Counter Strike all over again with CS:GO but... here I am. So much fucking fun.

Controller arrived today, dark souls is fucking amazing.

  On 8/25/2012 at 12:41 PM, kaen said:

Controller arrived today, dark souls is fucking amazing stupid.

fixed.

Game is amazing, port is horrible.

does anyone know if i can import a save of DS from the PC to the PS3? just in case i hate the PC version and decide to get it for the PS3.

  On 8/25/2012 at 12:57 PM, Npoess said:

  On 8/25/2012 at 12:41 PM, kaen said:

Controller arrived today, dark souls is fucking amazing stupid.

 

fixed.

elaborate.

I'm playing Arkham City now, which is quite enjoyable with the exception of the fighting. The action gameplay is somehow weaker and less satisfying than in the Assassin's Creed series. I'm at 25% completion. Does it get better? Right now, it's basically spam the attack button until attacked, then spam the counter button. Rinse/repeat.

The boss fights are a bit more interesting though.

I also think it's a bit dogged by a lack of diverse missions. So far, it feels like I'm more or less grappling my way across the map over and over again like a mailman. When I arrive at each narrative destination, I beat up a few bad guys and get sent across the map in another direction to do the same.

^ I now want to be a mailman...

Human Revolution is goddamn amazing I can't believe I picked this one up for 15 bucks.

Im not even through Hengsha yet and Ive been finding tons of augs, hacking is almost completely filled out, I have a full inventory (which still isn't big enough), tons of weapons upgraded to hell and beyond, and becoming more of a beast at stealth. Basically I sneak until Im caught, in which case everyone fucking dies by my Widowmaker Shotgun.

picked up worms: reloaded again.

  On 8/25/2012 at 12:41 PM, kaen said:

Controller arrived today, dark souls is fucking amazing.

i play it with a dualshock (ps2) controller (with a "360-controller-emulator" xbox360ce.exe), great stuff indeed, smooth controls and a thick ICO/SotC-like atmosphere. i never looked into Dark Souls before much because of the title, heh. i i think the port is fine and usually i'm very sensitive to frame rate. but then again i thought the (unpatched) RE4 PC port was decent as well.

I could see a bad port hurting the Dark Souls franchise in the long run - it's the sort of game where if you were to have some technical issues on top of the enormous difficulty I could see people getting turned off before they had a chance to really fall in love.

Pumped for the new content to come to consoles at the end of October.

  On 8/25/2012 at 9:00 PM, The Overlook said:

I'm playing Arkham City now, which is quite enjoyable with the exception of the fighting. The action gameplay is somehow weaker and less satisfying than in the Assassin's Creed series. I'm at 25% completion. Does it get better? Right now, it's basically spam the attack button until attacked, then spam the counter button. Rinse/repeat.

I had the exact same complaint early on. The fights get more interesting in the second half - you are forced to use a lot of abilities to make it through each fight in a reasonable amount of time.

Arkham Asylum combat was subtly simpler, and a lot more fun imo. But grappling around the city is easily the most fun open world mechanic in any game.

Just bought trackmania 2 (canyon), highly enjoyable and highly irrealistical racing, just like every other game in the series.

tomorrow is the release of guild wars 2, so that's what i'm going to play for the next months.

I'm thinking of buying Lollipop Chainsaw and Binary Domain. Any advice?

Dark Souls soul level 1 play through.

Because I have huge monster balls etc etc

tell me watmm, is the demon's souls port really AWFUL? it's a game i've wanted to play for a very long time but i hear so much about crappy controls and all that... i know there are hacks to sort out the res/fps bullshit... but does the UI actually make the game worse?

The resolution isn't an issue anymore. The resolution mod works great.

This is still far from great though:

- ATI cards seem to preform much worse, especially with the resolution fix

- 30 FPS cap remains and probably wont be fixed by modders. According to some things I've heard, they used a fixed timestep for a lot of animation and gameplay purposes. (anno 2011 )

- Mouse and keyboard controls are bad

The UI is exactly the same as the console version and is fine if you're playing on a controller. Doesn't make much sense on mouse and keyboard. My GTX470 SLI gets solid 30FPS at 1080p, but for some it drops down to 15 or lower. It has been stable for me, no crashes or weird issues.

It's a fantastic game though. If you haven't played Demon's Souls or Dark Souls on console I'd recommend it for sure.

  On 8/28/2012 at 1:11 AM, Ego said:

- ATI cards seem to preform much worse, especially with the resolution fix

gaaaah

and they wonder why people tend to pirate games as a demo.

Good summary of events from Ego there. Durante's resolution fix is up to version 5 now, loving the Depth of Field resolution fix he included, now stuff in the distance looks perfect.

I've got it running nicely on a solo GTX680, the odd frame drop here or there from 30fps but nothing major. My two remaining issues that I hope someone fix are:

- The developer splash screens take forever to load. Kill them!

- The UI text is still at the lower resolution. In a way it adds to the grubby vibe that DS exudes, but it would be nice to have it a little smoother.

  On 8/28/2012 at 1:11 AM, Ego said:

- 30 FPS cap remains and probably wont be fixed by modders. According to some things I've heard, they used a fixed timestep for a lot of animation and gameplay purposes. (anno 2011 )

Excuse my ignorance - but what's the issue with having a 30fps cap - Don't your eyes work slower than that anyway ? There's probably an obvious answer to this which will end with me slapping my forehead with my stupidity.