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started arcanum last night, it's sweet.

like steampunk diablo, but less arcadey than diablo.

Red Dead Redemption and Assassins Creed 2.

Assassins Creed 2 is producing some mad artifacts though. I need a new PS3 soon.

Bit.Trip.Runner ugh, goddamn give me another aspirin before my head asplodes.

great Pitfall level, btw

just beat mario galaxy 2. It was pretty fun, tho I think the first one was more satisfying. something about this one seemed a bit slight, like the majority of the levels were fairly short. tho I've still got a few to play thru for completion. yoshi fucking rules tho, and it's not like in nsmb where he's barely in it.

mount + blade warband has had death grip on me for the last week

  On 5/23/2010 at 12:31 AM, kaini said:

started arcanum last night, it's sweet.

like steampunk diablo, but less arcadey than diablo.

One of my favourite games, absolutely love it.

  On 5/23/2010 at 2:48 AM, 24ourange said:

mount + blade warband has had death grip on me for the last week

Man I loved the original when it was still a work in progress like 7 years ago. I cant wait to try it as a polished multiplayer game. Is it awesome?

  On 5/23/2010 at 11:40 AM, Dan C said:

  On 5/23/2010 at 12:31 AM, kaini said:

started arcanum last night, it's sweet.

like steampunk diablo, but less arcadey than diablo.

 

One of my favourite games, absolutely love it.

I've been absolutely curious about this game for years. Is it super dated or would it be fun to play today? I saw it on Good Old Games for like $6.00

  On 5/23/2010 at 2:16 PM, iamabe said:

  On 5/23/2010 at 11:40 AM, Dan C said:

  On 5/23/2010 at 12:31 AM, kaini said:

started arcanum last night, it's sweet.

like steampunk diablo, but less arcadey than diablo.

 

One of my favourite games, absolutely love it.

 

I've been absolutely curious about this game for years. Is it super dated or would it be fun to play today? I saw it on Good Old Games for like $6.00

I won't lie to you, even when it came out it wasn't a pretty game. But if you can look beyond that, it's an awesome game, and I recommend it to anyone who likes rpgs (not the Japanese kind though).

I'm playing The Ballad of Gay Tony and it seems like that fucking helicopter is impossible to control with the mouse and keyboard on the PC. I steal it, head on back towards the city and then it tells me to chase down some guys in boats. I'm spazzing out and in the drink in no time. The other open mission is impressing a woman with your dancing skills. Really missing being part of a biker gang.

I went back and played THPS1 + 2, beat them both in a total of like 10 hours. To be honest, I think they're the best in the entire series. Movement is much more solid and not crazy fast, and at that point they hadn't introduced revert, spine transfers, those trick "tweaks" you can do mid-grind or whatever by pressing button combinations, or alternate manual tricks (that moon-something one where you accelerate and it's obscenely useful, left right triangle or something), or even manuals in the first place in the case of THPS1. You can't rely on those to increase combo points, you have to actually go through and analyze the levels and find the right lines to use to get a lot of points (particularly in THPS1) and include variety in the tricks that you use. Not to mention the simplistic goals, which make the game easily understood and rewarding in a basic way where you know what you're working towards. They're the sort of game where you can just be bored and start playing and not get really involved in it, leave it running in the background and not be continuing a story every time you come back to it. I spent most of my time playing free skate as a kid.

I mean, I enjoyed 3 and 4 and the first Underground game, but 2 million point combos, a buggy nonlinear goal system, and drivable vehicles (?!) is pushing it a bit too far, though I liked the quirky nature of those games and I played the fuck out of THUG as a kid (especially online, the Playstation 2 was The Best). making parks, fuck me. all i ever wanted to do.

more developers should be humble and release just the first couple of games in a series (don't make silent hill 5 and really don't have another developer do it oh god well dont make any spinoff titles at least OH GOD), like harmonix did with frequency and amplitude. even if people are begging, it's like my bloody valentine. don't release an album that's not going to live up to loveless.

  On 5/23/2010 at 5:42 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

I'm playing The Ballad of Gay Tony and it seems like that fucking helicopter is impossible to control with the mouse and keyboard on the PC. I steal it, head on back towards the city and then it tells me to chase down some guys in boats. I'm spazzing out and in the drink in no time. The other open mission is impressing a woman with your dancing skills. Really missing being part of a biker gang.

Apart from that ropey helicopter section, the rest of the game is immaculate. For the next one, if they can get convincing helicopters and a decent pool engine, itll be perfect. The jumping out of the helicopter bit is probably going to piss you off just as much.

fitbaw

gay tony

borderlands

red dead

stuff

i just got project64 and the legend of zelda: the ocarina of time rom

i thought about buying a gamecube and getting the zelda collection

i'm not much of a gamer tbh but i've just always enjoyed this game

the guy at my local game shop mocked me for buying it back in 99

he said my '2-year-old cousin can beat this game' well fuck'em both

portal.

thanks kokoon, for making me try this

just got super mario galaxy 2.... enjoying it so far, but i'm waiting to see how it's better than galaxy 1....

Mod Nation Racers comes out tomorrow! Yay!

  On 5/22/2010 at 8:42 PM, data said:

just finished alan wake, about to sink me teeth into red dead redemption.

Soooo... Alan Wake...

about to be currently playing some tf2 in my undies with oreos and a glass of milk. wait, there's no euphemism. i'm really playing tf2.

gave my gow 1&2 collection to a friend and got gow III in exchange, which I´m gonna play stupid hard after my exams are done

  On 5/24/2010 at 7:19 PM, plstik said:

gave my gow 1&2 collection to a friend and got gow III in exchange, which I´m gonna play stupid hard before my exams are done

yeaaaaaaahh!

  On 5/24/2010 at 4:58 PM, Joyrex said:

Mod Nation Racers comes out tomorrow! Yay!

So you were in the beta? How was it? Cuz I'm definitely thinking of picking this one up.

  On 5/23/2010 at 6:32 PM, joew said:

I went back and played THPS1 + 2, beat them both in a total of like 10 hours. To be honest, I think they're the best in the entire series. Movement is much more solid and not crazy fast, and at that point they hadn't introduced revert, spine transfers, those trick "tweaks" you can do mid-grind or whatever by pressing button combinations, or alternate manual tricks (that moon-something one where you accelerate and it's obscenely useful, left right triangle or something), or even manuals in the first place in the case of THPS1. You can't rely on those to increase combo points, you have to actually go through and analyze the levels and find the right lines to use to get a lot of points (particularly in THPS1) and include variety in the tricks that you use. Not to mention the simplistic goals, which make the game easily understood and rewarding in a basic way where you know what you're working towards. They're the sort of game where you can just be bored and start playing and not get really involved in it, leave it running in the background and not be continuing a story every time you come back to it. I spent most of my time playing free skate as a kid.

 

I mean, I enjoyed 3 and 4 and the first Underground game, but 2 million point combos, a buggy nonlinear goal system, and drivable vehicles (?!) is pushing it a bit too far, though I liked the quirky nature of those games and I played the fuck out of THUG as a kid (especially online, the Playstation 2 was The Best). making parks, fuck me. all i ever wanted to do.

 

more developers should be humble and release just the first couple of games in a series (don't make silent hill 5 and really don't have another developer do it oh god well dont make any spinoff titles at least OH GOD), like harmonix did with frequency and amplitude. even if people are begging, it's like my bloody valentine. don't release an album that's not going to live up to loveless.

I've probably played more THPS 2 than any other game ever. Metal Gear Solid 1 comes next or maybe modern warfare 2, but THPS2 I think I played through the campain at least once for every character. God damn, that shit.

playin fire emblem: radiant dawn on the wii now, it's pretty good. fuckin hard, too.

  On 5/25/2010 at 4:28 AM, 747Music said:

  On 5/24/2010 at 4:58 PM, Joyrex said:

Mod Nation Racers comes out tomorrow! Yay!

 

So you were in the beta? How was it? Cuz I'm definitely thinking of picking this one up.

It's awesome. The customization already on there is incredible. Really easy to pick up and fun to play.

Does have a few problems though with online play, takes forever to get people on and when they do its always 4 and never 12. Did an online tournament earlier too and won the first 4 races and came 2nd in the final stage and someone quit as I crossed the line and it disconnected the server, counted as a forfeit for me and lost me a shitload of XP. I'm hoping patches sort the online stuff as it's awesome aside.

My girlfriend just got us Modnation Racers, this shit is off the hizzook!