What video game are you playing?

I got tired of trying to memorize all the moves in Guilty Gear XX after an hour of playing( specially since I can win just by mashing the buttons) and have lost interest in the game itself. But the soundtrack rocks. I found the folder with all the OGGs and burned most of them into an audio cd.

Am also alternating between Devil May Cry 3: SE and X-men Legends II: Rise of apocalypse. When I get a little bit bored with one, I save and then play the other.

I really like the game engines on DMC3 and Xmen legends 2, they look good and run smooth on my measly system. It's just a shame that majority of levels are either dark, gritty areas or semi-dark, also gritty, brown areas. All that eye candy lost among the darkness.

LOST AMONG THE DARKNESSS!!!!!

Zelda:Twilight Princess.

I'm still playing FF6 Advance. I'm not even half way through the game so I haven't seen any new stuff yet but the new dialogue is throwing me off. I've played through the game so many times I've memorized the old dialogue. Its still fun as hell.

Kevin Costner - The Gaurdian

since its my sick day i decided to go into some of my older games on the old x-box. Brothers in Arms is the shit!

i played neverwinter nights briefly. final fantasy 12. need for speed most wanted. and god of war 1.
all off and on right now

anything by nintendo. that shit rocks. brutha.

Just bought the Sonic Mega Collection for X-Box, I'll be playing that later tonight.

Just downloaded Tekken 5:DR for the PS3!

Playing Guild Wars, as per usual.

World Of Warcraft. Played it till six in the morning last night. My main character is now at level 54.

Getting tired of Warcraft. I need a RPG where I can play without some teenage tard constantly asking me for money or to help him out with some shit I don't want to do.

I think I'm gonna start Neverwinter Nights soon.

there are lots of beggars in WoW?!

I always thought the subscription fee kind of weeded out a large part of the teenage retards from the community.

I get it all the time in guild chat. "I need (insert a ridiculous amount of gold here) to get my epic flying mount, anyone want to loan it to me?" is a constant message in guild chat. Its gotten to the point where I want to leave the guild and I'm in one of the best on our server. I'd rather solo everything than deal with that shit.

Only one way to handle that. Kill them all.

Get a better guild.

I'm in the best guild on the server. My brother and some of our friends and co-workers are in it. Its fine when I play with them. Its all the other tards that I can't stand.

Switch to Guild Wars?

I dunno. Just find the people who are ruining your gaming experience and MAKE THEM PAY.

Only thing is, from my experience in MMORPGs, a lot of the stupid retards actually become very strong in the game. I don't know if it's because they tend to cheat or they tend to spend more time with the game or both, but yeah. Eventually they get licenses to bully people around.

community was the reason I stopped playing World of Warcraft. I don't know about the american community, but the European is extremely elitist. It's the evil circle. To get into the good guilds you need all the good stuff. But to get all the good stuff you need to be in the good guilds.

I've once again started playing City of Heroes with City of Villains as an addition. Plus I'm beginning on Star Wars Galaxies again.

hit Guild Wars, Chant.

I was straight addicted to City of Heroes. I need to get back to that game.(stupid dsl...)

I just got Matrix: Path of Neo for the PC and have been playing it for a couple of hours. Fighting a bunch of dudes and pulling off awesome The One moves is great, but it's hindered by the fact that it's a crappy port of a game that wasn't really that polished to begin with:

Even with my new monster PC(core 2 duo with 2gigs of ram and an nvidia 7950), the game still chokes at times, specially if I'm fighting a number of opponents and I've already destroyed a large part of the environment) It seems stupid that the game is being dragged by its two major selling points: fighting multiple enemies at once and destructible environments.

The graphics are also shitty. It's probably the only PC-ported game I know of that has graphics worse than its console counterparts. Even if I bump the resolution up to 1280X1024 the graphics still look as awful as it did in 800X600, the only difference is the animation is now less fluid.

Getting around the game is also difficult. Unless you've finished all the missions, you won't have the ability to skip FMVs at the start of the level, and most of them are at least 2 minutes in length.

ya i had the same gripes about the fmv. i loved em but getting your ass kicked over n over they should let you skip after the firsrt viewing. still say the game itself had a high funfactor. bullet-time fighting was intuitive and badass. i never finished it bc a reformat lost my saved games. ah well maybe someday a revisit.

Dang...I still haven't beaten 'Splinter Cell'...

which one...?

...the first one...

I got that one for three dollars the other day. I was gonna start it this weekend.

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...the first one...

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Kevin Costner - The Gaurdian

How about Castle of Blog?

Star Wars: Battlefront

Awesome game. The AI seems capable enough to play with so single player is fun. The action really makes you feel like your character is stuck in the movies. Only gripe I have is I can't play as one of the heroes. Being Mace would have been badass, seeing as to how the jedis really seem as powerful as they are in the movies (as opposed to other star wars fpses, where a stormtrooper can easily kill a jedi)

It didn't run well on my system at first, but I found out setting the LOD slider down will work like magic. And the quality of the graphics are not that affected, it still looks ace. From the slideshow fps I was playing it turned into a smooth one, just from that setting alone(I suppose putting too much detail on lots of units on a massive map will murder your fps)

once...only once did i see a fallen jedi on that game. i was shocked...

Star Wars Battlefront is awesome, as long as your playing multiplayer.

I can't play multiplayer becuz I don't have friends

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Thats whats the internet is for.

the internet is for porn.

In the ass!

I know what Ray Adler is playing!

Counterstrike: Source

I don't get why lots of people are going ape about it. It's just Counterstrike with updated graphics and maybe some minor gameplay tweaks. Minor: things that you don't really notice if you're having fun playing the game instead of just using it as an excuse to spend a month's wage on a new videocard.

Also takes up a whole lot more of space than the original counterstrike.

Super Nintendo games with my ZSNES emulator. Specifically The Death and Return of Superman.

dusted off ffXII

still haven't beat it. just play it from time to time when i'm bored

I'm playing Final Fantasy X. Never really played it before, but I'm enjoying it immensely.

F.E.A.R.

My brother and I started a co-worker only guild in World of Warcraft. Since we (kinda) know each other in real life its easier to get along with everyone and its made the game fun again.

You know, come to think of it, I haven't beaten those other games I bought either. Spiderman, Batman:Rise of Sin Tzu, Fables...

rise of sin tzu...i remember that...took me a while to beat that bastard...

Spidey 3

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rise of sin tzu...i remember that...took me a while to beat that bastard...

that any good? i bought it for my 6 year old, but i haven't played it.
he only wanted it cause it was batman

its ur typical run through beat em up type game. nothing fantastic about it but its always fun to kick the crap outta somebody as batman and company...

i might actually try it then. add it to the list of games i have gotten half way thru and stopped playing

i had a list like that with my super nintendo way back when...took forever with those games...

well, i am a third into ff 12, 3/4 into need for speed most wanted, halfway thru god of war, and i will still prolly play batman now before any of the others

Alternating between Guitar Hero 2 and Final Fantasy XII. Balthier is the man!

i finally gave up on guitar hero 2. bout 3/4 of the way thru expert it stopped being fun

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

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Final Fantasy XII. Balthier is the man!

I still haven't finished that!

Then get crackin'!

He would do, but he's getting sex!

Oh fuck I forgot, he aint!
That ruined a perfectly good joke!

Played Empire At War for a while, I'm gonna need to spend a couple hours learning this game.

Played Halo with headphones on and all the lights out. That game can be intense.

Bought the Puzzle League game for the DS. It's pretty addicting. I need to switch back to my emulators. I'll have time to do that this weekend, I have it off.

Justice league heroes. Just because i can damnit!

when i played that, i got it and marvel alliance the same day...marvel was so much better. i just wanted to play all the heros for awhile. beating it was pretty easy as well.

yeah i been beat marvel with some buddys of mine. this one felt more like a one player game(seeing as u only get two players at a time) so im going through it myself. Marvel is better but this isnt bad for what it is...

i did somthing similair, i played marvel 2 plaer....2 heroes apiece. dc i did one player....sometimes a character just dies too fuckin easy

i played spider man and usually thor sometimes surfer
my friend played ghost rider n wolverine, or iron man

Just finished FEAR so I picked up Splinter cell double agent!

Also downloaded classic arcade game Rampart from the Sony network!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

so I picked up Splinter cell double agent!

good game there...

So yer rolling with me then!

Lego Star Wars 2...

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

So yer rolling with me then!

aye...

Originally Posted By: big_pimp_tim

s funny cause all my friends played with all the real famous characters (cap, spidey, thor) but when i would get on with them i always played with all the people they never touched (moon knight, electra, blade etc...) My guys always wound up leveling before theirs...

i liked characters that flew or webslinged

i played them all thru the comic missions, warbird was probably the least popular that i used the most

This version of Splinter Cell has gotta be one of the most frustrating stealth games I have ever played, but damn its good!

Got to level 60 in warcraft and lost all interest in it. Haven't played it in a week.

Now I'm back to CIV3. I really have a problem with that game.

Just finished up the Darkness a few hours ago.

Thread for game description pending.

Giving Splinter Cell a rest as I move onto The Darkness and Transformers!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

This version of Splinter Cell has gotta be one of the most frustrating stealth games I have ever played, but damn its good!

The missions inside the Headquarters pretty much suck and are gay. In later levels, you carry a kick ass gun and can do what you please.

The HQ levels are boring as shit and annoying as hell.
The fact you can only stroll round at a snails pace doesnt help!

Exactly. I had fun with the missions in the arctic (or wherever the fuck that was) and some of the later missions...

Last time I played it (a week or two ago), I was on the boat doing some test run for planting a bomb.
Still quite early in the game!

Loved the arctic mission, especially for the way you could smash through the ice and pull people under water!

yeah those are pretty kick ass...

helped my son play some motocross game that sucked. and god of war.

watched my cousin play god of war 2 today. damn that game is vicious...

they are both awesome

Got the fallout DVD collection.

My old roommate's interested in Morrowind, so we'll be messing around with that when my vacation starts. I can't wait to get Oblivian when I get the 360.

I've got at least five games I bought but never played. I need to cancel my Warcraft account so I can catch up with everything else.

As I finished The Darkness last week, Transformers is not exactly an "indepth" type game and I want a rest from Splinter Cell, I picked up The elder scrolls IV:Oblivion.
Now if World of Warcraft was like this, I woulda enjoyed it more!

I haven't played Oblivion but I heard its basically a single player version of World of Warcraft.

Playing Transformers...Ironhide is kicking my ass...this game is hard.

I'm picking up Oblivion soon. Sean Bean is in it.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma

*Spoilers*

Warning, Spoiler:

i blame this too, on jeremy. wtg

Originally Posted By: rex

I haven't played Oblivion but I heard its basically a single player version of World of Warcraft.

It is similar to WOW except the fighting isnt a matter of just clicking buttons, its more like normal fighting games!

Originally Posted By: Cowgirl Jack

Playing Transformers...Ironhide is kicking my ass...this game is hard.

I'm picking up Oblivion soon. Sean Bean is in it.

I wouldnt say Transformers was hard per se, but it can get annoying sometimes if you are in the wrong position (ie, there is no debris or cars near you to throw at an enemy that you need to hit with an item before you can get near them).

Oblivion on the other hand, was a big mistake!
How the fuck am I sposed to have a real life when I cant put a game down?

Most games are pretty hard for me. I still don't understand how I kick everyone's ass at Halo.

And now I have a horse on Oblivion...yay...

So........

I was already to cancel my World of Warcraft account until the other day when I joined the 1up.com guild. Now I'm playing with some of the Games for Windows and 1up.com editors along with some video game developers. Tonight I was questing with a guy from Factor Five. Fucking awesome.

This is the most fun I've had playing a game in a long time.

Just finished Call of Duty 3 which was great and now I am starting Lair.

*Spoilers*

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

I'll tell you what game I'm NOT playing...Snake in the arcade.

Man...

Heavenly Sword and Stranglehold demos

Just got the Beyond the Sword expansion for Civ 4.

For the 360

Halo 3 primarily right now.

along with..

Call of Duty 2
Gears of War

and for the X-Box:

Star Wars: KOTOR II

Along with the odd Xbox Live Arcade game. Gauntlet, Frogger and Sonic II mostly.

i think one of the best parts to halo 3 is being able to watch your fights after youre done. We had a hilarious time just watching the replay of trying to kill eachother...

You know I went through three Halo games...and I didn't think about how to switch grenades until near the end of the third game?

Use the plasma grenades!

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Just got the Beyond the Sword expansion for Civ 4.

I've been hearing great things about that expansion pack, with some reviews saying its better than the original game.

Looked it up on steam today and its $75 for the complete game. I think I'll wait till the $40 everything in one box set.

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

Use the plasma grenades!

Actually, my favorite thing is to smack them upside the head with the butt of the gun.

Originally Posted By: Cowgirl Jack

You know I went through three Halo games...and I didn't think about how to switch grenades until near the end of the third game?

so sad...

Originally Posted By: Cowgirl Jack

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

Use the plasma grenades!

Actually, my favorite thing is to smack them upside the head with the butt of the gun.

acceptable. when i cant snipe this is always my second choice...

Yeah, it would be nice to not be on the receiving end of it though.

sorry to hear that germy. guess youre just to easy to shoot...

Sorry, I don't play it for 8 hours a day like most nerds.

nor do i...

only 6...

During all the major holidays you can get different pets in World of Warcraft. For Halloween you get this:

Its called a wolpertinger, basically a jackalope with wings. To get it you have to get really drunk and catch bugs that are invisible to anyone sober. It might be one of the coolest things I've ever seen in the game.

command and conquer, dawn of war

The Shield.

The Simpsons demo

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War demo

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War demo

This game is awesome! Never heard of it before the demo.

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

i think one of the best parts to halo 3 is being able to watch your fights after youre done. We had a hilarious time just watching the replay of trying to kill eachother...

Yes, I too have just discovered this. I love it! I look even more lame watching myself play (I seriously run around a lot while I wait for my shield to go up). I can't wait to take a crack at the multiplayer.

its good stuff cj. you'll love it...

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War demo

This game is awesome! Never heard of it before the demo.

RACK Jeff Glacier!!!

Bought Phantom Hourglass for the DS, I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

Bought Phantom Hourglass for the DS, I'll give it a go tomorrow.

And it could be the most fun I'll have playing a video game.

im trying to get city of heroes to work for my pc again. god i miss that game... $\:\($

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction demo

City of Heroes. im happy i got it working again...

My WOW account expired so now I'm going back to some old games I never finished, starting with Warcraft 3.

yeah

Just finish Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Otherwise I play the casual game for them moment. Warcraft Frozen Throne, Battlefield 2, Urban Terro V4 and sometime Dawn of War, Dark crusade and Company of Hero.

Both Hellgate London and World in Conflict are about to get launch very soon, so Im gonna try them when they are out. Plus I waitning for Warhammer Online, Age of Conan and Farcry Crsis 2.

Clive Barker's Jericho....demo. Not a bad game. At first I thought, "great, yet another FPS," but this reminds me of Psi-Ops and that is cool.

Guitar Hero III!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Diablo 2

I never really gave it a try until now. Nothings more fun than running around in a dungeon with an entourage of fire spewing skeletons.

I am also playing Guitar Hero 3. Other than the fact that the keyboardist character doesn't appear to show up in this, it's all that. And the Dragon Force some kicks ASS!

Zelda: Phantom Hourglass....and wishing the fucker had told me about just snapping my fingers before I bothered to yell on the metro.

Originally Posted By: klinton

Zelda: Phantom Hourglass....and wishing the fucker had told me about just snapping my fingers before I bothered to yell on the metro.

I love that game. I've barely been playing the adventure mode though because the battle mode is so damned addicting. I've gotten better at it, but it's hard to escape some of the FUCKING cheaters out there. Some of them just can't take a loss...

I'm stuck with a crappy laptop for a while so it looks like I have no choice but to play all the old bioware games.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The game is teh awesome!11!!

just got a wii

but it's for my boy for christmas $\:\($

but i might sneak it out n play it early

but my friends are tryin to make me feel guiltyfor it $\:\($

Yeah, you should really be ashamed of playing with your boy's Wii.

Just got Kane and Lynch yesterday. I'm playing the hell out of it. I love the cover system; it's very intuitive.

Ah, that is out now? Damn, between Call of Duty 4, Assassins Creed and that.....

heh, right now its pretty much Hellgate London and soon COD4

COD4
SD vs Raw 08
Kane & Lynch

Call of Duty 3.Good fun.

I got a chance to play Wii Sports at my aunt and uncle's last night. Bowling and boxing are too much fun. I bought X-Men Legends II for X-Box, I'll give that a shot later. Now it's back to Zelda on the DS.

Super Mario Galaxy. Best game ever about an Italian plummer in space.

Super Mario and Tetris.

On Nintendo Super Nes.

Really got into Super Mario World on the GBA again. This is easily the best 2D Mario game.

That would actually be Super Mario 3.

Just bought a Wii yesterday, must hook it up!

no faggot, its not.

I just bought a second hand Gameboy Advance SP and one of those devices that let you play downloaded roms on it, anybody care to recommend awesome games to put on it?

So far I have:

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories,
Final Fantasy VI,
Spiderman: Mysterio's Menace,
Mario Kart,
Supermario Advance
Need for Speed underground 2,
Dragonball Advance Adventure
The Sims 2,
and Bookworm.

Also going to let my little sister play so I need input from Snarf as to what games a girl might like to play. i.e. Barbie Adventures or WWE Survivor Series.

Mario Kart is great and you only need one cartridge to play on multiple gameboys.

fucking rock band..... man... that game is fucking awesome. easier than guitar hero, but when your playin on a harder level than your friends n they mess up, leading you to mocking them while playing leading to you messing up....

was hilarious

Wii Sports as well as Mario 3 on the virtual console.

Assassins creed

Got sucked into peggle again. This time I beat it. I'm not going to do the extra challenges until I beat some other games.

Portal is still awesome even though its making me feel like an idiot.

Half-Life source is dragging on, I'll probably go back to HL2.

Team Fortress is crazy fun. The only bad part is trying to find a good group to play with.

WOW is still making me its bitch. My account runs out at the end of January and I'm thinking of quitting it for a couple months.

Still playin' Lego Star Wars but Mario Galaxy is calling to me.I just started Return of the Jedi so once that's done I can start on it.

I finally hit 70 in WOW last night. Now maybe I'll get to some other games.

Assassin's Creed

Rock band

NANACA CRASH

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

It's using the HL2 source for its engine so the first person shooting aspect would have been solid, if it weren't for the sucky part that guns don't deal much damage to monsters as opposed to melee. Melee combat on the other hand is clunky so hand to hand combat feels like a sloppy cross between Jedi Outcast and Grand theft Auto 3.

It's a good thing combat is not the game's main focus, Plus, I can do stealth kills Sam Fisher style. Actually, now that I think more about it, It's almost like a Grand Theft Auto 3 with vampires.

been meaning to play that for a while

Can you fuck the vampire hookers to restore your health and then run them over to collect your money again?

Originally Posted By: ButterRican

Rock band

yes! that is the fucking game...

i play drums...

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Assassin's Creed

is it as bad ass as they say...?

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Originally Posted By: ButterRican

Rock band

yes! that is the fucking game...

i play drums...

so do I. And sing...badly

i sing on a few just for the hell of it...

my geetar broke $\:\($

you shouldnt have been trying to smash it like u were on stage butter dear...

Is THAT what they call what she does now... SMASHING???

i was trying to be subtle...

If she ever does it on stage, however, I'm there.

I'll pay for the food if you bring the singles...

fair enough...grab the music too for the dj

and don;t go blowin all the moeny on gobdamned tiki torches

relax tim. its all good. were not dealing with jermy here...

in that case, when the hell does it start?

Originally Posted By: ButterRican

my geetar broke $\:\($

Apparently most of their guitars broke. They're replacing them for free.

youre correct

Originally Posted By: rex

Originally Posted By: ButterRican

my geetar broke $\:\($

Apparently most of their guitars broke. They're replacing them for free.

my friends broke as well, and despite being on topic, this is taking away from the main attraction

carry on!

maybe i wasnt using it correctly

It happens the first time out...

just needs practice!

and finger dexterity

And stamina!

and how!

I'm still playing this game way too much.

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Assassin's Creed

is it as bad ass as they say...?

No. I like it and whatever glitches there were seem to have been fixed by the patch some time ago. I've got about six more assassinations to go.

Originally Posted By: TK-069

Can you fuck the vampire hookers to restore your health and then run them over to collect your money again?

I'm not sure. The hookers always ignore my advances. I named my character "Snarf".

Warhawk.

Frustrating and hard-to-control piece of crap. But somehow, some damn way, I still have fun with it. That epic battle sense it gives is just insane. The fact that the explosions and mass gun fire are actually caused by the players rather than pre-scripted by the level design just makes it so damn cool to be apart of.

Originally Posted By: rex

I'm still playing this game way too much.

i still play that time to time, but mostly i have been playing bejeweled on my phone. 38 stars on mario galaxy though.

so yeah i just bought a wii today(FINALLY

)

and yeah...it is most good...

it's fuckin awesome.

i still need to take the time to get them it and the 360 online though.

Mass Effect rocks. I bought the soundtrack too. It's like Blade Runner techno music. Synthesizers must be making a comeback.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Assassin's Creed

is it as bad ass as they say...?

No. I like it and whatever glitches there were seem to have been fixed by the patch some time ago. I've got about six more assassinations to go.

And now that I've finished it I can say I'd give it a 7 out of 10. It does feel repetitive sometimes and the ending will piss you off, but overall i enjoyed it.

Rogue Trooper. Don't know how I missed this the first time around.

A couple of demos:

The Club and Devil May Cry 4

They both suck.

Just wanted to let you know.

K, thanx for telling us.

More Peggle and Portal.

The challenges in Peggle are actually a lot of fun. I'll spend more time in them than the actual game.

I'm on the last level of Portal. This is such a fucking good game. I'll probably review it when I'm done with it.

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2.

I may even write a mini-review for it, ala Pariah with his "Lair" review.

AW 2 RAWKS!

Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls.
Myst-type adventure in a horror setting. Played the first one ages ago (Released in 1995) and loved it.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

A couple of demos:

The Club and Devil May Cry 4

I downloaded a playable demo of The Club.........fucking horrible game!

True, it reads well.........but is not all that great.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Assassin's Creed

is it as bad ass as they say...?

No. I like it and whatever glitches there were seem to have been fixed by the patch some time ago. I've got about six more assassinations to go.

There are only six assassinations so you hadnt played it much then!

"Iron Storm."
It's actually kinda cool. Graphically worse than Quake III I think.
Too bad I can't find a copy of the 2005 UK re-release (enhanced graphics, mainly)

Good!
I hope you never find it!

fuck off!!!

Thanks! Ever play it? It was called "World War III: Iron Storm" over there.

No.
So do as Knuttwat says, and fuck off!

Nowie, do you go by captain howdy for any games?

i only play online on the ps3, and its caphowdy

ah ok. There's a friend of a friend of mine thats names captain howdy on steam. Didn't think it was you because he wasn't a whiny welshie.

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Assassin's Creed

is it as bad ass as they say...?

No. I like it and whatever glitches there were seem to have been fixed by the patch some time ago. I've got about six more assassinations to go.

There are only six assassinations so you hadnt played it much then!

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

And now that I've finished it I can say I'd give it a 7 out of 10. It does feel repetitive sometimes and the ending will piss you off, but overall i enjoyed it.

Just beat portal. Damn good game. Review coming soon.

More Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I played Hardcore Team Deathmatch and did NOTHING but kill my own team mates through the entire matches. It was especially funny when they had a mic.

Wow, you really are shit.
I'm glad I cant play games with you anymore!

Indeed, you would be #1 on the list!

So, I'm guessing you aint had the guts to go prestige then.

What's the use? You get NOTHING, but a stupid symbol. If something more were offered...sure.

Plus, I love ruining those fucking stat/rank whores with all their care about K/D ratios and shit. Fuck'em!

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Plus, I love ruining those fucking stat/rank whores with all their care about K/D ratios and shit. Fuck'em!

I think I may need to introduce you to WarRock.

Yer just to gay to handle going back to minimum weapons!
Oh, and you do get something extra, you get to do all the challenges again, meaning extra points!

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Plus, I love ruining those fucking stat/rank whores with all their care about K/D ratios and shit. Fuck'em!

I think I may need to introduce you to WarRock.

Fuck off!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Yer just to gay to handle going back to minimum weapons!
Oh, and you do get something extra, you get to do all the challenges again, meaning extra points!

Yep, yer a coward, we get it already!

Oh yeah, yer gay, we get that as well.

Metal Slug Anthology.

RKMB's. It's this crap homasekshul soap opera sim.

heard it was overated...

SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL!!!!

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL!!!!

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

More Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I played Hardcore Team Deathmatch and did NOTHING but kill my own team mates through the entire matches. It was especially funny when they had a mic.

I played a hardcore deathmatch a week or so ago (and no, I aint forgotten you killed me in another game), and I accidently killed this guy cause he ran in front of me when I was shooting an enemy.
He then decides to get revenge and kill me on purpose (he sneaked up and stabbed me in the back when I was sniping an enemy).
For the rest of the game I just kept killing him.
Fuck my score!

its moments like that that make gaming truly worth it...

I'm usually pretty good with friendly fire as I hate losing points, but that cunt couldnt accept mistakes happen.
He already had friendly kills as his points tally was lower than his kills (you get 10 points for a kill and he had something like 7 kills and only 60 points).

Gotta say, Hardcore deathmatches can be either great, or awful.
Some people just should not play a game like that if they cant tell the difference between the enemy and their own team!

That said, one of the other things in COD4 that pisses me off is when you are playing a domination match.
Theres no friendly fire in that, but you can get killed by friendly airstrikes.
Ok, so sometimes yer in the wrong place at the wrong time, but when your team is converging on a flag, and a muppet on your team decides an airstrike on that position is a good idea, then it all becomes a bit of a fucking joke!

Its the reason I rarely wear a mic when playing.
All I end up doing is swearing because of team mates incompetence! (especially those cunts that block door ways etc so you cannot go anywhere!)

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL!!!!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

More Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I played Hardcore Team Deathmatch and did NOTHING but kill my own team mates through the entire matches. It was especially funny when they had a mic.

I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I've been completing the sniper challenges and you were in my sights. The perfect headshot!

You'll get yours butt monkey!
Please notice how much better than you I am at killing people.
Only reason I didnt kill you that night was I wanted a good score!

Dead by dawn!

Dont make me post the picture!

F.E.A.R. Gold

B.E.A.R.D. Guy

Junior

Turning point:Fall of liberty

I've been on an old game kick recently. Hitman and Gun. Those are rad.

no one should be playing that...

still on fuckin ssbb. unlocked everyone but toon link, wolf n jigglypuff

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Turning point:Fall of liberty

This game is shit.
I have put it up for sale on Amazon already!

Playing Godfather:Dons edition now.
Older game than Turning point, but ten times better!

Just got Condemned 2. I wanted to wait until I played the first one. But I'm too impatient.

Excellent so far. A little tough though.

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning beta

this game is the good stuff!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Playing Godfather:Dons edition now.
Older game than Turning point, but ten times better!

This is certainly feeding that GTA fix while I'm waiting for IV to come out!
There is certainly something satisfying about setting people on fire!

If you haven't, try "Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico" if for no reason other than the "Mariachi" powerup. No other game lets you walk through the streets with twin guitar-case-machine-guns.

I wish someone would do that on your street, then shoot you in the eyes!

total gunslinger seemed cool at first, but got boring fast. It was like they mixed Max Payne and Serious Sam together but totally failed like PCG did with his life.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

Pure fun

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

This game is the reason I want a PS3. Too bad the actual game is still a year away. I hope we get a PS3 GT5 bundle here.

The fucking graphics and handling are awesome.
Theres only six tracks, with multiple variations as per usual (long/short/reverse), but there are over 60 cars to choose from.

The online mode seems a little flawed right now, but hopefully they will fix all the bugs (its says it wont penalise people for collisions if the other person is driving eratically, but then penalises you if someone spins out and spears into the side of your car...dumb).

The fact its only a fraction of the cost of a full priced game, and doesnt involve having to do stupid licence tests like the last prologue game, makes it worth either buying or downloading!

From what I can gather, the UK version has some extra features over the Jap version that was released last year, but I dunno about the US version!

Oh, and it has dual shock capability!

Originally Posted By: Jason E. Perkins

Pure fun

Hotlink criminal!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

From what I can gather, the UK version has some extra features over the Jap version that was released last year, but I dunno about the US version!

You can change the car settings in the US and UK version. It might be added to the Japanese version soon.

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: Jason E. Perkins

Pure fun

Hotlink criminal!

Finally did Karazhan in WOW. Easily the most fun I've had in the game that didn't involve griefing others or suicide bombing the auction houses.

Took you three days to come up with that?

Track mania nations forever. crappy name, great game.

The free version has tons of tracks and you can make your own and play online with I think up to 40 other players. You can get it off steam or http://www.trackmania.com.

My game id is rexstardust.

8 year olds.

Just preparing to fight the final battle in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer.

Just finished playing Marvel Superhero Alliance.

Sly Cooper and the Thevius Racoonus - A classic.

I'm playing Halo2

Thank you Sammitch.

it's funny, don't get me wrong. it's just disrupting the flow of our threads.

Originally Posted By: rex

this game is actually pretty fun. with a gamepad the controls are pretty solid and gameplay in general is very enjoyable.

Look at my steam profile. I've probably played this game more than any other one over the last week or two.

Final Fantasy X-2. Yeah, I know....

I like any game that involves you hanging yourself.

I just can't delete that! I agree too much!

Drunken Masters - Play it here.

Res. Evil Four, Mario Kart Wii, DBZ:BK2, and my retro game of the week is Donkey Kong Classics for the NES with DK and DK Jr.

Originally Posted By: Chant

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning beta

this game is the good stuff!

still very good stuff and still the only thing I'm currently playing

Taking the Summer off from World of Warcraft. I don't need to be raiding four or five times a night and need a break.

Now I'm playing Warcraft 3 and messing around with the Mythos beta.

Warcraft 3 is better than I expected and now I will know whats going on in the next Wow expansion. Mythos is ok. I got to level five or six and lost interest.

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Forum: Arcade Room
Thread: What video game are you playing?

I bought Mass Effect for PC yesterday.

Totally AWESOME game!

I'm playing the vibe!

Sadly, there is no mine-planting function in Minesweeper. You can only deactivate them or set them off.

I bet pro could do it. He's an expert hacker.

Kids these days...

Is this message board a video game?

Is this what you wanted?
To live in a house that is haunted (HAUNTED)
by the ghost
of you and me

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CHAPTER 1
Marseilles -- The Arrival.

On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de
la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from
Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.

As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the
Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion
and Rion island.

Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort
Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an
event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially
when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged,
and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner
of the city.

The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which
some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and
Jaros islands; had doubled Pomegue, and approached the
harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and
sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the
forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could
have happened on board. However, those experienced in
navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it
was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all
the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor
a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and
standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the
Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a
young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched
every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the
pilot.

The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators
had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await
the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a
small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon,
which he reached as she rounded into La Reserve basin.

When the young man on board saw this person approach, he
left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over
the ship's bulwarks.

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or
twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing;
and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and
resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to
contend with danger.

"Ah, is it you, Dantes?" cried the man in the skiff. "What's
the matter? and why have you such an air of sadness aboard?"

"A great misfortune, M. Morrel," replied the young man, --
"a great misfortune, for me especially! Off Civita Vecchia
we lost our brave Captain Leclere."

"And the cargo?" inquired the owner, eagerly.

"Is all safe, M. Morrel; and I think you will be satisfied
on that head. But poor Captain Leclere -- "

"What happened to him?" asked the owner, with an air of
considerable resignation. "What happened to the worthy
captain?"

"He died."

"Fell into the sea?"

"No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony." Then
turning to the crew, he said, "Bear a hand there, to take in
sail!"

All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who
composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at
the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards,
the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines.
The young sailor gave a look to see that his orders were
promptly and accurately obeyed, and then turned again to the
owner.

"And how did this misfortune occur?" inquired the latter,
resuming the interrupted conversation.

"Alas, sir, in the most unexpected manner. After a long talk
with the harbor-master, Captain Leclere left Naples greatly
disturbed in mind. In twenty-four hours he was attacked by a
fever, and died three days afterwards. We performed the
usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his
hammock with a thirty-six pound shot at his head and his
heels, off El Giglio island. We bring to his widow his sword
and cross of honor. It was worth while, truly," added the
young man with a melancholy smile, "to make war against the
English for ten years, and to die in his bed at last, like
everybody else."

"Why, you see, Edmond," replied the owner, who appeared more
comforted at every moment, "we are all mortal, and the old
must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no
promotion; and since you assure me that the cargo -- "

"Is all safe and sound, M. Morrel, take my word for it; and
I advise you not to take 25,000 francs for the profits of
the voyage."

Then, as they were just passing the Round Tower, the young
man shouted: "Stand by there to lower the topsails and jib;
brail up the spanker!"

The order was executed as promptly as it would have been on
board a man-of-war.

"Let go -- and clue up!" At this last command all the sails
were lowered, and the vessel moved almost imperceptibly
onwards.

"Now, if you will come on board, M. Morrel," said Dantes,
observing the owner's impatience, "here is your supercargo,
M. Danglars, coming out of his cabin, who will furnish you
with every particular. As for me, I must look after the
anchoring, and dress the ship in mourning."

The owner did not wait for a second invitation. He seized a
rope which Dantes flung to him, and with an activity that
would have done credit to a sailor, climbed up the side of
the ship, while the young man, going to his task, left the
conversation to Danglars, who now came towards the owner. He
was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of
unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors,
insolent to his subordinates; and this, in addition to his
position as responsible agent on board, which is always
obnoxious to the sailors, made him as much disliked by the
crew as Edmond Dantes was beloved by them.

"Well, M. Morrel," said Danglars, "you have heard of the
misfortune that has befallen us?"

"Yes -- yes: poor Captain Leclere! He was a brave and an
honest man."

"And a first-rate seaman, one who had seen long and
honorable service, as became a man charged with the
interests of a house so important as that of Morrel & Son,"
replied Danglars.

"But," replied the owner, glancing after Dantes, who was
watching the anchoring of his vessel, "it seems to me that a
sailor needs not be so old as you say, Danglars, to
understand his business, for our friend Edmond seems to
understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction
from any one."

"Yes," said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with
hate. "Yes, he is young, and youth is invariably
self-confident. Scarcely was the captain's breath out of his
body when he assumed the command without consulting any one,
and he caused us to lose a day and a half at the Island of
Elba, instead of making for Marseilles direct."

"As to taking command of the vessel," replied Morrel, "that
was his duty as captain's mate; as to losing a day and a
half off the Island of Elba, he was wrong, unless the vessel
needed repairs."

"The vessel was in as good condition as I am, and as, I hope
you are, M. Morrel, and this day and a half was lost from
pure whim, for the pleasure of going ashore, and nothing
else."

"Dantes," said the shipowner, turning towards the young man,
"come this way!"

"In a moment, sir," answered Dantes, "and I'm with you."
Then calling to the crew, he said -- "Let go!"

The anchor was instantly dropped, and the chain ran rattling
through the port-hole. Dantes continued at his post in spite
of the presence of the pilot, until this manoeuvre was
completed, and then he added, "Half-mast the colors, and
square the yards!"

"You see," said Danglars, "he fancies himself captain
already, upon my word."

"And so, in fact, he is," said the owner.

"Except your signature and your partner's, M. Morrel."

"And why should he not have this?" asked the owner; "he is
young, it is true, but he seems to me a thorough seaman, and
of full experience."

A cloud passed over Danglars' brow. "Your pardon, M.
Morrel," said Dantes, approaching, "the vessel now rides at
anchor, and I am at your service. You hailed me, I think?"

Danglars retreated a step or two. "I wished to inquire why
you stopped at the Island of Elba?"

"I do not know, sir; it was to fulfil the last instructions
of Captain Leclere, who, when dying, gave me a packet for
Marshal Bertrand."

"Then did you see him, Edmond?"

"Who?"

"The marshal."

"Yes."

Morrel looked around him, and then, drawing Dantes on one
side, he said suddenly -- "And how is the emperor?"

"Very well, as far as I could judge from the sight of him."

"You saw the emperor, then?"

"He entered the marshal's apartment while I was there."

"And you spoke to him?"

"Why, it was he who spoke to me, sir," said Dantes, with a
smile.

"And what did he say to you?"

"Asked me questions about the vessel, the time she left
Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her
cargo. I believe, if she had not been laden, and I had been
her master, he would have bought her. But I told him I was
only mate, and that she belonged to the firm of Morrel &
Son. `Ah, yes,' he said, `I know them. The Morrels have been
shipowners from father to son; and there was a Morrel who
served in the same regiment with me when I was in garrison
at Valence.'"

"Pardieu, and that is true!" cried the owner, greatly
delighted. "And that was Policar Morrel, my uncle, who was
afterwards a captain. Dantes, you must tell my uncle that
the emperor remembered him, and you will see it will bring
tears into the old soldier's eyes. Come, come," continued
he, patting Edmond's shoulder kindly, "you did very right,
Dantes, to follow Captain Leclere's instructions, and touch
at Elba, although if it were known that you had conveyed a
packet to the marshal, and had conversed with the emperor,
it might bring you into trouble."

"How could that bring me into trouble, sir?" asked Dantes;
"for I did not even know of what I was the bearer; and the
emperor merely made such inquiries as he would of the first
comer. But, pardon me, here are the health officers and the
customs inspectors coming alongside." And the young man went
to the gangway. As he departed, Danglars approached, and
said, --

"Well, it appears that he has given you satisfactory reasons
for his landing at Porto-Ferrajo?"

"Yes, most satisfactory, my dear Danglars."

"Well, so much the better," said the supercargo; "for it is
not pleasant to think that a comrade has not done his duty."

"Dantes has done his," replied the owner, "and that is not
saying much. It was Captain Leclere who gave orders for this
delay."

"Talking of Captain Leclere, has not Dantes given you a
letter from him?"

"To me? -- no -- was there one?"

"I believe that, besides the packet, Captain Leclere
confided a letter to his care."

"Of what packet are you speaking, Danglars?"

"Why, that which Dantes left at Porto-Ferrajo."

"How do you know he had a packet to leave at Porto-Ferrajo?"

Danglars turned very red.

"I was passing close to the door of the captain's cabin,
which was half open, and I saw him give the packet and
letter to Dantes."

"He did not speak to me of it," replied the shipowner; "but
if there be any letter he will give it to me."

Danglars reflected for a moment. "Then, M. Morrel, I beg of
you," said he, "not to say a word to Dantes on the subject.
I may have been mistaken."

At this moment the young man returned; Danglars withdrew.

"Well, my dear Dantes, are you now free?" inquired the
owner.

"Yes, sir."

"You have not been long detained."

"No. I gave the custom-house officers a copy of our bill of
lading; and as to the other papers, they sent a man off with
the pilot, to whom I gave them."

"Then you have nothing more to do here?"

"No -- everything is all right now."

"Then you can come and dine with me?"

"I really must ask you to excuse me, M. Morrel. My first
visit is due to my father, though I am not the less grateful
for the honor you have done me."

"Right, Dantes, quite right. I always knew you were a good
son."

"And," inquired Dantes, with some hesitation, "do you know
how my father is?"

"Well, I believe, my dear Edmond, though I have not seen him
lately."

"Yes, he likes to keep himself shut up in his little room."

"That proves, at least, that he has wanted for nothing
during your absence."

Dantes smiled. "My father is proud, sir, and if he had not a
meal left, I doubt if he would have asked anything from
anyone, except from Heaven."

"Well, then, after this first visit has been made we shall
count on you."

"I must again excuse myself, M. Morrel, for after this first
visit has been paid I have another which I am most anxious
to pay."

"True, Dantes, I forgot that there was at the Catalans some
one who expects you no less impatiently than your father --
the lovely Mercedes."

Dantes blushed.

"Ah, ha," said the shipowner, "I am not in the least
surprised, for she has been to me three times, inquiring if
there were any news of the Pharaon. Peste, Edmond, you have
a very handsome mistress!"

"She is not my mistress," replied the young sailor, gravely;
"she is my betrothed."

"Sometimes one and the same thing," said Morrel, with a
smile.

"Not with us, sir," replied Dantes.

"Well, well, my dear Edmond," continued the owner, "don't
let me detain you. You have managed my affairs so well that
I ought to allow you all the time you require for your own.
Do you want any money?"

"No, sir; I have all my pay to take -- nearly three months'
wages."

"You are a careful fellow, Edmond."

"Say I have a poor father, sir."

"Yes, yes, I know how good a son you are, so now hasten away
to see your father. I have a son too, and I should be very
wroth with those who detained him from me after a three
months' voyage."

"Then I have your leave, sir?"

"Yes, if you have nothing more to say to me."

"Nothing."

"Captain Leclere did not, before he died, give you a letter
for me?"

"He was unable to write, sir. But that reminds me that I
must ask your leave of absence for some days."

"To get married?"

"Yes, first, and then to go to Paris."

"Very good; have what time you require, Dantes. It will take
quite six weeks to unload the cargo, and we cannot get you
ready for sea until three months after that; only be back
again in three months, for the Pharaon," added the owner,
patting the young sailor on the back, "cannot sail without
her captain."

"Without her captain!" cried Dantes, his eyes sparkling with
animation; "pray mind what you say, for you are touching on
the most secret wishes of my heart. Is it really your
intention to make me captain of the Pharaon?"

"If I were sole owner we'd shake hands on it now, my dear
Dantes, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you
know the Italian proverb -- Chi ha compagno ha padrone --
`He who has a partner has a master.' But the thing is at
least half done, as you have one out of two votes. Rely on
me to procure you the other; I will do my best."

"Ah, M. Morrel," exclaimed the young seaman, with tears in
his eyes, and grasping the owner's hand, "M. Morrel, I thank
you in the name of my father and of Mercedes."

"That's all right, Edmond. There's a providence that watches
over the deserving. Go to your father: go and see Mercedes,
and afterwards come to me."

"Shall I row you ashore?"

"No, thank you; I shall remain and look over the accounts
with Danglars. Have you been satisfied with him this
voyage?"

"That is according to the sense you attach to the question,
sir. Do you mean is he a good comrade? No, for I think he
never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after
a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten
minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute
-- a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite
right to refuse. If you mean as responsible agent when you
ask me the question, I believe there is nothing to say
against him, and that you will be content with the way in
which he has performed his duty."

"But tell me, Dantes, if you had command of the Pharaon
should you be glad to see Danglars remain?"

"Captain or mate, M. Morrel, I shall always have the
greatest respect for those who possess the owners'
confidence."

"That's right, that's right, Dantes! I see you are a
thoroughly good fellow, and will detain you no longer. Go,
for I see how impatient you are."

"Then I have leave?"

"Go, I tell you."

"May I have the use of your skiff?"

"Certainly."

"Then, for the present, M. Morrel, farewell, and a thousand
thanks!"

"I hope soon to see you again, my dear Edmond. Good luck to
you."

The young sailor jumped into the skiff, and sat down in the
stern sheets, with the order that he be put ashore at La
Canebiere. The two oarsmen bent to their work, and the
little boat glided away as rapidly as possible in the midst
of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which
leads between the two rows of ships from the mouth of the
harbor to the Quai d'Orleans.

The shipowner, smiling, followed him with his eyes until he
saw him spring out on the quay and disappear in the midst of
the throng, which from five o'clock in the morning until
nine o'clock at night, swarms in the famous street of La
Canebiere, -- a street of which the modern Phocaeans are so
proud that they say with all the gravity in the world, and
with that accent which gives so much character to what is
said, "If Paris had La Canebiere, Paris would be a second
Marseilles." On turning round the owner saw Danglars behind
him, apparently awaiting orders, but in reality also
watching the young sailor, -- but there was a great
difference in the expression of the two men who thus
followed the movements of Edmond Dantes.

We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred,
and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner
some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantes,
who, after having traversed La Canebiere, took the Rue de
Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the
Allees de Meillan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark
staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with
the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused
before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole
of a small room.

This room was occupied by Dantes' father. The news of the
arrival of the Pharaon had not yet reached the old man, who,
mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with
trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that
clambered over the trellis at his window. Suddenly, he felt
an arm thrown around his body, and a well-known voice behind
him exclaimed, "Father -- dear father!"

The old man uttered a cry, and turned round; then, seeing
his son, he fell into his arms, pale and trembling.

"What ails you, my dearest father? Are you ill?" inquired
the young man, much alarmed.

"No, no, my dear Edmond -- my boy -- my son! -- no; but I
did not expect you; and joy, the surprise of seeing you so
suddenly -- Ah, I feel as if I were going to die."

"Come, come, cheer up, my dear father! 'Tis I -- really I!
They say joy never hurts, and so I came to you without any
warning. Come now, do smile, instead of looking at me so
solemnly. Here I am back again, and we are going to be
happy."

"Yes, yes, my boy, so we will -- so we will," replied the
old man; "but how shall we be happy? Shall you never leave
me again? Come, tell me all the good fortune that has
befallen you."

"God forgive me," said the young man, "for rejoicing at
happiness derived from the misery of others, but, Heaven
knows, I did not seek this good fortune; it has happened,
and I really cannot pretend to lament it. The good Captain
Leclere is dead, father, and it is probable that, with the
aid of M. Morrel, I shall have his place. Do you understand,
father? Only imagine me a captain at twenty, with a hundred
louis pay, and a share in the profits! Is this not more than
a poor sailor like me could have hoped for?"

"Yes, my dear boy," replied the old man, "it is very
fortunate."

"Well, then, with the first money I touch, I mean you to
have a small house, with a garden in which to plant
clematis, nasturtiums, and honeysuckle. But what ails you,
father? Are you not well?"

"'Tis nothing, nothing; it will soon pass away" -- and as he
said so the old man's strength failed him, and he fell
backwards.

"Come, come," said the young man, "a glass of wine, father,
will revive you. Where do you keep your wine?"

"No, no; thanks. You need not look for it; I do not want
it," said the old man.

"Yes, yes, father, tell me where it is," and he opened two
or three cupboards.

"It is no use," said the old man, "there is no wine."

"What, no wine?" said Dantes, turning pale, and looking
alternately at the hollow cheeks of the old man and the
empty cupboards. "What, no wine? Have you wanted money,
father?"

"I want nothing now that I have you," said the old man.

"Yet," stammered Dantes, wiping the perspiration from his
brow, -- "yet I gave you two hundred francs when I left,
three months ago."

"Yes, yes, Edmond, that is true, but you forgot at that time
a little debt to our neighbor, Caderousse. He reminded me of
it, telling me if I did not pay for you, he would be paid by
M. Morrel; and so, you see, lest he might do you an injury"
--

"Well?"

"Why, I paid him."

"But," cried Dantes, "it was a hundred and forty francs I
owed Caderousse."

"Yes," stammered the old man.

"And you paid him out of the two hundred francs I left you?"

The old man nodded.

"So that you have lived for three months on sixty francs,"
muttered Edmond.

"You know how little I require," said the old man.

"Heaven pardon me," cried Edmond, falling on his knees
before his father.

"What are you doing?"

"You have wounded me to the heart."

"Never mind it, for I see you once more," said the old man;
"and now it's all over -- everything is all right again."

"Yes, here I am," said the young man, "with a promising
future and a little money. Here, father, here!" he said,
"take this -- take it, and send for something immediately."
And he emptied his pockets on the table, the contents
consisting of a dozen gold pieces, five or six five-franc
pieces, and some smaller coin. The countenance of old Dantes
brightened.

"Whom does this belong to?" he inquired.

"To me, to you, to us! Take it; buy some provisions; be
happy, and to-morrow we shall have more."

"Gently, gently," said the old man, with a smile; "and by
your leave I will use your purse moderately, for they would
say, if they saw me buy too many things at a time, that I
had been obliged to await your return, in order to be able
to purchase them."

"Do as you please; but, first of all, pray have a servant,
father. I will not have you left alone so long. I have some
smuggled coffee and most capital tobacco, in a small chest
in the hold, which you shall have to-morrow. But, hush, here
comes somebody."

"'Tis Caderousse, who has heard of your arrival, and no
doubt comes to congratulate you on your fortunate return."

"Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks
another," murmured Edmond. "But, never mind, he is a
neighbor who has done us a service on a time, so he's
welcome."

As Edmond paused, the black and bearded head of Caderousse
appeared at the door. He was a man of twenty-five or six,
and held a piece of cloth, which, being a tailor, he was
about to make into a coat-lining.

"What, is it you, Edmond, back again?" said he, with a broad
Marseillaise accent, and a grin that displayed his
ivory-white teeth.

"Yes, as you see, neighbor Caderousse; and ready to be
agreeable to you in any and every way," replied Dantes, but
ill-concealing his coldness under this cloak of civility.

"Thanks -- thanks; but, fortunately, I do not want for
anything; and it chances that at times there are others who
have need of me." Dantes made a gesture. "I do not allude to
you, my boy. No! -- no! I lent you money, and you returned
it; that's like good neighbors, and we are quits."

"We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes'
reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them
gratitude."

"What's the use of mentioning that? What is done is done.
Let us talk of your happy return, my boy. I had gone on the
quay to match a piece of mulberry cloth, when I met friend
Danglars. `You at Marseilles?' -- `Yes,' says he.

"`I thought you were at Smyrna.' -- `I was; but am now back
again.'

"`And where is the dear boy, our little Edmond?'

"`Why, with his father, no doubt,' replied Danglars. And so
I came," added Caderousse, "as fast as I could to have the
pleasure of shaking hands with a friend."

"Worthy Caderousse!" said the old man, "he is so much
attached to us."

"Yes, to be sure I am. I love and esteem you, because honest
folks are so rare. But it seems you have come back rich, my
boy," continued the tailor, looking askance at the handful
of gold and silver which Dantes had thrown on the table.

The young man remarked the greedy glance which shone in the
dark eyes of his neighbor. "Eh," he said, negligently. "this
money is not mine. I was expressing to my father my fears
that he had wanted many things in my absence, and to
convince me he emptied his purse on the table. Come, father"
added Dantes, "put this money back in your box -- unless
neighbor Caderousse wants anything, and in that case it is
at his service."

"No, my boy, no," said Caderousse. "I am not in any want,
thank God, my living is suited to my means. Keep your money
-- keep it, I say; -- one never has too much; -- but, at the
same time, my boy, I am as much obliged by your offer as if
I took advantage of it."

"It was offered with good will," said Dantes.

"No doubt, my boy; no doubt. Well, you stand well with M.
Morrel I hear, -- you insinuating dog, you!"

"M. Morrel has always been exceedingly kind to me," replied
Dantes.

"Then you were wrong to refuse to dine with him."

"What, did you refuse to dine with him?" said old Dantes;
"and did he invite you to dine?"

"Yes, my dear father," replied Edmond, smiling at his
father's astonishment at the excessive honor paid to his
son.

"And why did you refuse, my son?" inquired the old man.

"That I might the sooner see you again, my dear father,"
replied the young man. "I was most anxious to see you."

"But it must have vexed M. Morrel, good, worthy man," said
Caderousse. "And when you are looking forward to be captain,
it was wrong to annoy the owner."

"But I explained to him the cause of my refusal," replied
Dantes, "and I hope he fully understood it."

"Yes, but to be captain one must do a little flattery to
one's patrons."

"I hope to be captain without that," said Dantes.

"So much the better -- so much the better! Nothing will give
greater pleasure to all your old friends; and I know one
down there behind the Saint Nicolas citadel who will not be
sorry to hear it."

"Mercedes?" said the old man.

"Yes, my dear father, and with your permission, now I have
seen you, and know you are well and have all you require, I
will ask your consent to go and pay a visit to the
Catalans."

"Go, my dear boy," said old Dantes: "and heaven bless you in
your wife, as it has blessed me in my son!"

"His wife!" said Caderousse; "why, how fast you go on,
father Dantes; she is not his wife yet, as it seems to me."

"So, but according to all probability she soon will be,"
replied Edmond.

"Yes -- yes," said Caderousse; "but you were right to return
as soon as possible, my boy."

"And why?"

"Because Mercedes is a very fine girl, and fine girls never
lack followers; she particularly has them by dozens."

"Really?" answered Edmond, with a smile which had in it
traces of slight uneasiness.

"Ah, yes," continued Caderousse, "and capital offers, too;
but you know, you will be captain, and who could refuse you
then?"

"Meaning to say," replied Dantes, with a smile which but
ill-concealed his trouble, "that if I were not a captain" --

"Eh -- eh!" said Caderousse, shaking his head.

"Come, come," said the sailor, "I have a better opinion than
you of women in general, and of Mercedes in particular; and
I am certain that, captain or not, she will remain ever
faithful to me."

"So much the better -- so much the better," said Caderousse.
"When one is going to be married, there is nothing like
implicit confidence; but never mind that, my boy, -- go and
announce your arrival, and let her know all your hopes and
prospects."

"I will go directly," was Edmond's reply; and, embracing his
father, and nodding to Caderousse, he left the apartment.

Caderousse lingered for a moment, then taking leave of old
Dantes, he went downstairs to rejoin Danglars, who awaited
him at the corner of the Rue Senac.

"Well," said Danglars, "did you see him?"

"I have just left him," answered Caderousse.

"Did he allude to his hope of being captain?"

"He spoke of it as a thing already decided."

"Indeed!" said Danglars, "he is in too much hurry, it
appears to me."

"Why, it seems M. Morrel has promised him the thing."

"So that he is quite elated about it?"

"Why, yes, he is actually insolent over the matter -- has
already offered me his patronage, as if he were a grand
personage, and proffered me a loan of money, as though he
were a banker."

"Which you refused?"

"Most assuredly; although I might easily have accepted it,
for it was I who put into his hands the first silver he ever
earned; but now M. Dantes has no longer any occasion for
assistance -- he is about to become a captain."

"Pooh!" said Danglars, "he is not one yet."

"Ma foi, it will be as well if he is not," answered
Caderousse; "for if he should be, there will be really no
speaking to him."

"If we choose," replied Danglars, "he will remain what he
is; and perhaps become even less than he is."

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing -- I was speaking to myself. And is he still in
love with the Catalane?"

"Over head and ears; but, unless I am much mistaken, there
will be a storm in that quarter."

"Explain yourself."

"Why should I?"

"It is more important than you think, perhaps. You do not
like Dantes?"

"I never like upstarts."

"Then tell me all you know about the Catalane."

"I know nothing for certain; only I have seen things which
induce me to believe, as I told you, that the future captain
will find some annoyance in the vicinity of the Vieilles
Infirmeries."

"What have you seen? -- come, tell me!"

"Well, every time I have seen Mercedes come into the city
she has been accompanied by a tall, strapping, black-eyed
Catalan, with a red complexion, brown skin, and fierce air,
whom she calls cousin."

"Really; and you think this cousin pays her attentions?"

"I only suppose so. What else can a strapping chap of
twenty-one mean with a fine wench of seventeen?"

"And you say that Dantes has gone to the Catalans?"

"He went before I came down."

"Let us go the same way; we will stop at La Reserve, and we
can drink a glass of La Malgue, whilst we wait for news."

"Come along," said Caderousse; "but you pay the score."

"Of course," replied Danglars; and going quickly to the
designated place, they called for a bottle of wine, and two
glasses.

Pere Pamphile had seen Dantes pass not ten minutes before;
and assured that he was at the Catalans, they sat down under
the budding foliage of the planes and sycamores, in the
branches of which the birds were singing their welcome to
one of the first days of spring.

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CHAPTER 3
The Catalans.

Beyond a bare, weather-worn wall, about a hundred paces from
the spot where the two friends sat looking and listening as
they drank their wine, was the village of the Catalans. Long
ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and settled on the
tongue of land on which it is to this day. Whence it came no
one knew, and it spoke an unknown tongue. One of its chiefs,
who understood Provencal, begged the commune of Marseilles
to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like
the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore. The
request was granted; and three months afterwards, around the
twelve or fifteen small vessels which had brought these
gypsies of the sea, a small village sprang up. This village,
constructed in a singular and picturesque manner, half
Moorish, half Spanish, still remains, and is inhabited by
descendants of the first comers, who speak the language of
their fathers. For three or four centuries they have
remained upon this small promontory, on which they had
settled like a flight of seabirds, without mixing with the
Marseillaise population, intermarrying, and preserving their
original customs and the costume of their mother-country as
they have preserved its language.

Our readers will follow us along the only street of this
little village, and enter with us one of the houses, which
is sunburned to the beautiful dead-leaf color peculiar to
the buildings of the country, and within coated with
whitewash, like a Spanish posada. A young and beautiful
girl, with hair as black as jet, her eyes as velvety as the
gazelle's, was leaning with her back against the wainscot,
rubbing in her slender delicately moulded fingers a bunch of
heath blossoms, the flowers of which she was picking off and
strewing on the floor; her arms, bare to the elbow, brown,
and modelled after those of the Arlesian Venus, moved with a
kind of restless impatience, and she tapped the earth with
her arched and supple foot, so as to display the pure and
full shape of her well-turned leg, in its red cotton, gray
and blue clocked, stocking. At three paces from her, seated
in a chair which he balanced on two legs, leaning his elbow
on an old worm-eaten table, was a tall young man of twenty,
or two-and-twenty, who was looking at her with an air in
which vexation and uneasiness were mingled. He questioned
her with his eyes, but the firm and steady gaze of the young
girl controlled his look.

"You see, Mercedes," said the young man, "here is Easter
come round again; tell me, is this the moment for a
wedding?"

"I have answered you a hundred times, Fernand, and really
you must be very stupid to ask me again."

"Well, repeat it, -- repeat it, I beg of you, that I may at
last believe it! Tell me for the hundredth time that you
refuse my love, which had your mother's sanction. Make me
understand once for all that you are trifling with my
happiness, that my life or death are nothing to you. Ah, to
have dreamed for ten years of being your husband, Mercedes,
and to lose that hope, which was the only stay of my
existence!"

"At least it was not I who ever encouraged you in that hope,
Fernand," replied Mercedes; "you cannot reproach me with the
slightest coquetry. I have always said to you, `I love you
as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly
affection, for my heart is another's.' Is not this true,
Fernand?"

"Yes, that is very true, Mercedes," replied the young man,
"Yes, you have been cruelly frank with me; but do you forget
that it is among the Catalans a sacred law to intermarry?"

"You mistake, Fernand; it is not a law, but merely a custom,
and, I pray of you, do not cite this custom in your favor.
You are included in the conscription, Fernand, and are only
at liberty on sufferance, liable at any moment to be called
upon to take up arms. Once a soldier, what would you do with
me, a poor orphan, forlorn, without fortune, with nothing
but a half-ruined hut and a few ragged nets, the miserable
inheritance left by my father to my mother, and by my mother
to me? She has been dead a year, and you know, Fernand, I
have subsisted almost entirely on public charity. Sometimes
you pretend I am useful to you, and that is an excuse to
share with me the produce of your fishing, and I accept it,
Fernand, because you are the son of my father's brother,
because we were brought up together, and still more because
it would give you so much pain if I refuse. But I feel very
deeply that this fish which I go and sell, and with the
produce of which I buy the flax I spin, -- I feel very
keenly, Fernand, that this is charity."

"And if it were, Mercedes, poor and lone as you are, you
suit me as well as the daughter of the first shipowner or
the richest banker of Marseilles! What do such as we desire
but a good wife and careful housekeeper, and where can I
look for these better than in you?"

"Fernand," answered Mercedes, shaking her head, "a woman
becomes a bad manager, and who shall say she will remain an
honest woman, when she loves another man better than her
husband? Rest content with my friendship, for I say once
more that is all I can promise, and I will promise no more
than I can bestow."

"I understand," replied Fernand, "you can endure your own
wretchedness patiently, but you are afraid to share mine.
Well, Mercedes, beloved by you, I would tempt fortune; you
would bring me good luck, and I should become rich. I could
extend my occupation as a fisherman, might get a place as
clerk in a warehouse, and become in time a dealer myself."

"You could do no such thing, Fernand; you are a soldier, and
if you remain at the Catalans it is because there is no war;
so remain a fisherman, and contented with my friendship, as
I cannot give you more."

"Well, I will do better, Mercedes. I will be a sailor;
instead of the costume of our fathers, which you despise, I
will wear a varnished hat, a striped shirt, and a blue
jacket, with an anchor on the buttons. Would not that dress
please you?"

"What do you mean?" asked Mercedes, with an angry glance, --
"what do you mean? I do not understand you?"

"I mean, Mercedes, that you are thus harsh and cruel with
me, because you are expecting some one who is thus attired;
but perhaps he whom you await is inconstant, or if he is
not, the sea is so to him."

"Fernand," cried Mercedes, "I believed you were
good-hearted, and I was mistaken! Fernand, you are wicked to
call to your aid jealousy and the anger of God! Yes, I will
not deny it, I do await, and I do love him of whom you
speak; and, if he does not return, instead of accusing him
of the inconstancy which you insinuate, I will tell you that
he died loving me and me only." The young girl made a
gesture of rage. "I understand you, Fernand; you would be
revenged on him because I do not love you; you would cross
your Catalan knife with his dirk. What end would that
answer? To lose you my friendship if he were conquered, and
see that friendship changed into hate if you were victor.
Believe me, to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of
pleasing the woman who loves that man. No, Fernand, you will
not thus give way to evil thoughts. Unable to have me for
your wife, you will content yourself with having me for your
friend and sister; and besides," she added, her eyes
troubled and moistened with tears, "wait, wait, Fernand; you
said just now that the sea was treacherous, and he has been
gone four months, and during these four months there have
been some terrible storms."

Fernand made no reply, nor did he attempt to check the tears
which flowed down the cheeks of Mercedes, although for each
of these tears he would have shed his heart's blood; but
these tears flowed for another. He arose, paced a while up
and down the hut, and then, suddenly stopping before
Mercedes, with his eyes glowing and his hands clinched, --
"Say, Mercedes," he said, "once for all, is this your final
determination?"

"I love Edmond Dantes," the young girl calmly replied, "and
none but Edmond shall ever be my husband."

"And you will always love him?"

"As long as I live."

Fernand let fall his head like a defeated man, heaved a sigh
that was like a groan, and then suddenly looking her full in
the face, with clinched teeth and expanded nostrils, said,
-- "But if he is dead" --

"If he is dead, I shall die too."

"If he has forgotten you" --

"Mercedes!" called a joyous voice from without, --
"Mercedes!"

"Ah," exclaimed the young girl, blushing with delight, and
fairly leaping in excess of love, "you see he has not
forgotten me, for here he is!" And rushing towards the door,
she opened it, saying, "Here, Edmond, here I am!"

Fernand, pale and trembling, drew back, like a traveller at
the sight of a serpent, and fell into a chair beside him.
Edmond and Mercedes were clasped in each other's arms. The
burning Marseilles sun, which shot into the room through the
open door, covered them with a flood of light. At first they
saw nothing around them. Their intense happiness isolated
them from all the rest of the world, and they only spoke in
broken words, which are the tokens of a joy so extreme that
they seem rather the expression of sorrow. Suddenly Edmond
saw the gloomy, pale, and threatening countenance of
Fernand, as it was defined in the shadow. By a movement for
which he could scarcely account to himself, the young
Catalan placed his hand on the knife at his belt.

"Ah, your pardon," said Dantes, frowning in his turn; "I did
not perceive that there were three of us." Then, turning to
Mercedes, he inquired, "Who is this gentleman?"

"One who will be your best friend, Dantes, for he is my
friend, my cousin, my brother; it is Fernand -- the man
whom, after you, Edmond, I love the best in the world. Do
you not remember him?"

"Yes!" said Dantes, and without relinquishing Mercedes hand
clasped in one of his own, he extended the other to the
Catalan with a cordial air. But Fernand, instead of
responding to this amiable gesture, remained mute and
trembling. Edmond then cast his eyes scrutinizingly at the
agitated and embarrassed Mercedes, and then again on the
gloomy and menacing Fernand. This look told him all, and his
anger waxed hot.

"I did not know, when I came with such haste to you, that I
was to meet an enemy here."

"An enemy!" cried Mercedes, with an angry look at her
cousin. "An enemy in my house, do you say, Edmond! If I
believed that, I would place my arm under yours and go with
you to Marseilles, leaving the house to return to it no
more."

Fernand's eye darted lightning. "And should any misfortune
occur to you, dear Edmond," she continued with the same
calmness which proved to Fernand that the young girl had
read the very innermost depths of his sinister thought, "if
misfortune should occur to you, I would ascend the highest
point of the Cape de Morgion and cast myself headlong from
it."

Fernand became deadly pale. "But you are deceived, Edmond,"
she continued. "You have no enemy here -- there is no one
but Fernand, my brother, who will grasp your hand as a
devoted friend."

And at these words the young girl fixed her imperious look
on the Catalan, who, as if fascinated by it, came slowly
towards Edmond, and offered him his hand. His hatred, like a
powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong
ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him. Scarcely,
however, had he touched Edmond's hand than he felt he had
done all he could do, and rushed hastily out of the house.

"Oh," he exclaimed, running furiously and tearing his hair
-- "Oh, who will deliver me from this man? Wretched --
wretched that I am!"

"Hallo, Catalan! Hallo, Fernand! where are you running to?"
exclaimed a voice.

The young man stopped suddenly, looked around him, and
perceived Caderousse sitting at table with Danglars, under
an arbor.

"Well", said Caderousse, "why don't you come? Are you really
in such a hurry that you have no time to pass the time of
day with your friends?"

"Particularly when they have still a full bottle before
them," added Danglars. Fernand looked at them both with a
stupefied air, but did not say a word.

"He seems besotted," said Danglars, pushing Caderousse with
his knee. "Are we mistaken, and is Dantes triumphant in
spite of all we have believed?"

"Why, we must inquire into that," was Caderousse's reply;
and turning towards the young man, said, "Well, Catalan,
can't you make up your mind?"

Fernand wiped away the perspiration steaming from his brow,
and slowly entered the arbor, whose shade seemed to restore
somewhat of calmness to his senses, and whose coolness
somewhat of refreshment to his exhausted body.

"Good-day," said he. "You called me, didn't you?" And he
fell, rather than sat down, on one of the seats which
surrounded the table.

"I called you because you were running like a madman, and I
was afraid you would throw yourself into the sea," said
Caderousse, laughing. "Why, when a man has friends, they are
not only to offer him a glass of wine, but, moreover, to
prevent his swallowing three or four pints of water
unnecessarily!"

Fernand gave a groan, which resembled a sob, and dropped his
head into his hands, his elbows leaning on the table.

"Well, Fernand, I must say," said Caderousse, beginning the
conversation, with that brutality of the common people in
which curiosity destroys all diplomacy, "you look uncommonly
like a rejected lover;" and he burst into a hoarse laugh.

"Bah!" said Danglars, "a lad of his make was not born to be
unhappy in love. You are laughing at him, Caderousse."

"No," he replied, "only hark how he sighs! Come, come,
Fernand," said Caderousse, "hold up your head, and answer
us. It's not polite not to reply to friends who ask news of
your health."

"My health is well enough," said Fernand, clinching his
hands without raising his head.

"Ah, you see, Danglars," said Caderousse, winking at his
friend, "this is how it is; Fernand, whom you see here, is a
good and brave Catalan, one of the best fishermen in
Marseilles, and he is in love with a very fine girl, named
Mercedes; but it appears, unfortunately, that the fine girl
is in love with the mate of the Pharaon; and as the Pharaon
arrived to-day -- why, you understand!"

"No; I do not understand," said Danglars.

"Poor Fernand has been dismissed," continued Caderousse.

"Well, and what then?" said Fernand, lifting up his head,
and looking at Caderousse like a man who looks for some one
on whom to vent his anger; "Mercedes is not accountable to
any person, is she? Is she not free to love whomsoever she
will?"

"Oh, if you take it in that sense," said Caderousse, "it is
another thing. But I thought you were a Catalan, and they
told me the Catalans were not men to allow themselves to be
supplanted by a rival. It was even told me that Fernand,
especially, was terrible in his vengeance."

Fernand smiled piteously. "A lover is never terrible," he
said.

"Poor fellow!" remarked Danglars, affecting to pity the
young man from the bottom of his heart. "Why, you see, he
did not expect to see Dantes return so suddenly -- he
thought he was dead, perhaps; or perchance faithless! These
things always come on us more severely when they come
suddenly."

"Ah, ma foi, under any circumstances," said Caderousse, who
drank as he spoke, and on whom the fumes of the wine began
to take effect, -- "under any circumstances Fernand is not
the only person put out by the fortunate arrival of Dantes;
is he, Danglars?"

"No, you are right -- and I should say that would bring him
ill-luck."

"Well, never mind," answered Caderousse, pouring out a glass
of wine for Fernand, and filling his own for the eighth or
ninth time, while Danglars had merely sipped his. "Never
mind -- in the meantime he marries Mercedes -- the lovely
Mercedes -- at least he returns to do that."

During this time Danglars fixed his piercing glance on the
young man, on whose heart Caderousse's words fell like
molten lead.

"And when is the wedding to be?" he asked.

"Oh, it is not yet fixed!" murmured Fernand.

"No, but it will be," said Caderousse, "as surely as Dantes
will be captain of the Pharaon -- eh, Danglars?"

Danglars shuddered at this unexpected attack, and turned to
Caderousse, whose countenance he scrutinized, to try and
detect whether the blow was premeditated; but he read
nothing but envy in a countenance already rendered brutal
and stupid by drunkenness.

"Well," said he, filling the glasses, "let us drink to
Captain Edmond Dantes, husband of the beautiful Catalane!"

Caderousse raised his glass to his mouth with unsteady hand,
and swallowed the contents at a gulp. Fernand dashed his on
the ground.

"Eh, eh, eh!" stammered Caderousse. "What do I see down
there by the wall, in the direction of the Catalans? Look,
Fernand, your eyes are better than mine. I believe I see
double. You know wine is a deceiver; but I should say it was
two lovers walking side by side, and hand in hand. Heaven
forgive me, they do not know that we can see them, and they
are actually embracing!"

Danglars did not lose one pang that Fernand endured.

"Do you know them, Fernand?" he said.

"Yes," was the reply, in a low voice. "It is Edmond and
Mercedes!"

"Ah, see there, now!" said Caderousse; "and I did not
recognize them! Hallo, Dantes! hello, lovely damsel! Come
this way, and let us know when the wedding is to be, for
Fernand here is so obstinate he will not tell us."

"Hold your tongue, will you?" said Danglars, pretending to
restrain Caderousse, who, with the tenacity of drunkards,
leaned out of the arbor. "Try to stand upright, and let the
lovers make love without interruption. See, look at Fernand,
and follow his example; he is well-behaved!"

Fernand, probably excited beyond bearing, pricked by
Danglars, as the bull is by the bandilleros, was about to
rush out; for he had risen from his seat, and seemed to be
collecting himself to dash headlong upon his rival, when
Mercedes, smiling and graceful, lifted up her lovely head,
and looked at them with her clear and bright eyes. At this
Fernand recollected her threat of dying if Edmond died, and
dropped again heavily on his seat. Danglars looked at the
two men, one after the other, the one brutalized by liquor,
the other overwhelmed with love.

"I shall get nothing from these fools," he muttered; "and I
am very much afraid of being here between a drunkard and a
coward. Here's an envious fellow making himself boozy on
wine when he ought to be nursing his wrath, and here is a
fool who sees the woman he loves stolen from under his nose
and takes on like a big baby. Yet this Catalan has eyes that
glisten like those of the vengeful Spaniards, Sicilians, and
Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an
ox at one blow. Unquestionably, Edmond's star is in the
ascendant, and he will marry the splendid girl -- he will be
captain, too, and laugh at us all, unless" -- a sinister
smile passed over Danglars' lips -- "unless I take a hand in
the affair," he added.

"Hallo!" continued Caderousse, half-rising, and with his
fist on the table, "hallo, Edmond! do you not see your
friends, or are you too proud to speak to them?"

"No, my dear fellow!" replied Dantes, "I am not proud, but I
am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."

"Ah, very well, that's an explanation!" said Caderousse.
"How do you do, Madame Dantes?"

Mercedes courtesied gravely, and said -- "That is not my
name, and in my country it bodes ill fortune, they say, to
call a young girl by the name of her betrothed before he
becomes her husband. So call me Mercedes, if you please."

"We must excuse our worthy neighbor, Caderousse," said
Dantes, "he is so easily mistaken."

"So, then, the wedding is to take place immediately, M.
Dantes," said Danglars, bowing to the young couple.

"As soon as possible, M. Danglars; to-day all preliminaries
will be arranged at my father's, and to-morrow, or next day
at latest, the wedding festival here at La Reserve. My
friends will be there, I hope; that is to say, you are
invited, M. Danglars, and you, Caderousse."

"And Fernand," said Caderousse with a chuckle; "Fernand,
too, is invited!"

"My wife's brother is my brother," said Edmond; "and we,
Mercedes and I, should be very sorry if he were absent at
such a time."

Fernand opened his mouth to reply, but his voice died on his
lips, and he could not utter a word.

"To-day the preliminaries, to-morrow or next day the
ceremony! You are in a hurry, captain!"

"Danglars," said Edmond, smiling, "I will say to you as
Mercedes said just now to Caderousse, `Do not give me a
title which does not belong to me'; that may bring me bad
luck."

"Your pardon," replied Danglars, "I merely said you seemed
in a hurry, and we have lots of time; the Pharaon cannot be
under weigh again in less than three months."

"We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when
we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in
believing in good fortune. But it is not selfishness alone
that makes me thus in haste; I must go to Paris."

"Ah, really? -- to Paris! and will it be the first time you
have ever been there, Dantes?"

"Yes."

"Have you business there?"

"Not of my own; the last commission of poor Captain Leclere;
you know to what I allude, Danglars -- it is sacred.
Besides, I shall only take the time to go and return."

"Yes, yes, I understand," said Danglars, and then in a low
tone, he added, "To Paris, no doubt to deliver the letter
which the grand marshal gave him. Ah, this letter gives me
an idea -- a capital idea! Ah; Dantes, my friend, you are
not yet registered number one on board the good ship
Pharaon;" then turning towards Edmond, who was walking away,
"A pleasant journey," he cried.

"Thank you," said Edmond with a friendly nod, and the two
lovers continued on their way, as calm and joyous as if they
were the very elect of heaven.

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Danglars followed Edmond and Mercedes with his eyes until
the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort
Saint Nicolas, then turning round, he perceived Fernand, who
had fallen, pale and trembling, into his chair, while
Caderousse stammered out the words of a drinking-song.

"Well, my dear sir," said Danglars to Fernand, "here is a
marriage which does not appear to make everybody happy."

"It drives me to despair," said Fernand.

"Do you, then, love Mercedes?"

"I adore her!"

"For long?"

"As long as I have known her -- always."

"And you sit there, tearing your hair, instead of seeking to
remedy your condition; I did not think that was the way of
your people."

"What would you have me do?" said Fernand.

"How do I know? Is it my affair? I am not in love with
Mademoiselle Mercedes; but for you -- in the words of the
gospel, seek, and you shall find."

"I have found already."

"What?"

"I would stab the man, but the woman told me that if any
misfortune happened to her betrothed, she would kill
herself."

"Pooh! Women say those things, but never do them."

"You do not know Mercedes; what she threatens she will do."

"Idiot!" muttered Danglars; "whether she kill herself or
not, what matter, provided Dantes is not captain?"

"Before Mercedes should die," replied Fernand, with the
accents of unshaken resolution, "I would die myself!"

"That's what I call love!" said Caderousse with a voice more
tipsy than ever. "That's love, or I don't know what love
is."

"Come," said Danglars, "you appear to me a good sort of
fellow, and hang me, I should like to help you, but" --

"Yes," said Caderousse, "but how?"

"My dear fellow," replied Danglars, "you are three parts
drunk; finish the bottle, and you will be completely so.
Drink then, and do not meddle with what we are discussing,
for that requires all one's wit and cool judgment."

"I -- drunk!" said Caderousse; "well that's a good one! I
could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than
cologne flasks. Pere Pamphile, more wine!" and Caderousse
rattled his glass upon the table.

"You were saving, sir" -- said Fernand, awaiting with great
anxiety the end of this interrupted remark.

"What was I saying? I forget. This drunken Caderousse has
made me lose the thread of my sentence."

"Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear
wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they
are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts;" and
Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very
popular at the time, --

`Tous les mechants sont beuveurs d'eau;
C'est bien prouve par le deluge.'*

* "The wicked are great drinkers of water
As the flood proved once for all."

"You said, sir, you would like to help me, but" --

"Yes; but I added, to help you it would be sufficient that
Dantes did not marry her you love; and the marriage may
easily be thwarted, methinks, and yet Dantes need not die."

"Death alone can separate them," remarked Fernand.

"You talk like a noodle, my friend," said Caderousse; "and
here is Danglars, who is a wide-awake, clever, deep fellow,
who will prove to you that you are wrong. Prove it,
Danglars. I have answered for you. Say there is no need why
Dantes should die; it would, indeed, be a pity he should.
Dantes is a good fellow; I like Dantes. Dantes, your
health."

Fernand rose impatiently. "Let him run on," said Danglars,
restraining the young man; "drunk as he is, he is not much
out in what he says. Absence severs as well as death, and if
the walls of a prison were between Edmond and Mercedes they
would be as effectually separated as if he lay under a
tombstone."

"Yes; but one gets out of prison," said Caderousse, who,
with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the
conversation, "and when one gets out and one's name is
Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge" --

"What matters that?" muttered Fernand.

"And why, I should like to know," persisted Caderousse,
"should they put Dantes in prison? he has not robbed or
killed or murdered."

"Hold your tongue!" said Danglars.

"I won't hold my tongue!" replied Caderousse; "I say I want
to know why they should put Dantes in prison; I like Dantes;
Dantes, your health!" and he swallowed another glass of
wine.

Danglars saw in the muddled look of the tailor the progress
of his intoxication, and turning towards Fernand, said,
"Well, you understand there is no need to kill him."

"Certainly not, if, as you said just now, you have the means
of having Dantes arrested. Have you that means?"

"It is to be found for the searching. But why should I
meddle in the matter? it is no affair of mine.";

"I know not why you meddle," said Fernand, seizing his arm;
"but this I know, you have some motive of pers

Has that been adapted into a videogame?

Rob's gonna punish you, Rellik

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots! Yeahs! Completly

So it's really not that disappointing?

Playing Reservoir Dogs myself.

Most definitely not.........................unless you're Pariah.

Yeah, well his review is based solely on the script.

Oui?

Just got through playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the PS3 with a few friends. Very, very nice game.

Grim Fandango

Soul Caliber IV

team fortress 2. again. this game fucking rocks.

You should start a thread about this!

I like setting people on fire!

Playing as the Pyro is cool, too.

get outta my HEAD, man! I have all the pyro milestones unlocked. two medic milestones as well.

how is that? the trailers looked interesting.

Originally Posted By: Carnack

What did Phil say after having only $100 a month left over for rent after paying child support?

Originally Posted By: Captain Sammitch

the trailers looked interesting.

Its a great little game, full of humour, and you get to blow up pretty much anything from builings to trees.

Its sorta getting compared to COD4 as its a modern FPS, but its so much different.
Its not as grim, gritty and realistic as COD4, and is kinda reminiscent (story wise) to the film Kellys heroes.

Havent tried the online yet, but it sounds cool as it has up to 24 players per game.

Targeting system is not as good as COD4, but I think thats just something you have to get used to (I have only played it for an hour or so).

Basically, dont expect another COD4, and you should enjoy it!

I downloaded the MP demo for the 360. Multiplayer is a FUCKING mess, but I've heard good things about the singleplayer campaign.

Again, this is on the 360. The Battlefield series has always done very well on the PC, especially 1942...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_1942

Played a ton of the original Mario Kart today. I still say its the best version.

Haze. Surprisingly fun.

Originally Posted By: rex

Played a ton of the original Mario Kart today. I still say its the best version.

Yeah it has the best battle mode.

I hate the battle mode.

"GUN"

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Haze. Surprisingly fun.

You are gay!

heh

I have the demo for that, but haven't played it. How is it?

Play the demo and find out.
Thats why I bought it!

Indigo Prophesy. Can't believe I missed out on this the first time around.

Cabal Online. I like how the combo system makes it so that gameplay and PvP isn't just clicking things until your enemy or your character falls to the ground(it's probably the only mmo I've encountered where enabling the auto-attack will actually make you lose). The graphics are also nice enough but don't need a monster PC to run well.

There have been complaints about the limited weapon and armor selection, but I find that the simplified gear options tend to limit people's strength within a certain level so you won't find a jackhole with his UBERGEAR+9999 going around randomly PK-ing low levels. There are godlike equips available but they are available to everybody provided that they reach the required level and have put enough time to farming or crafting the damn thing, but it still won't assure that you're not going to be taken down by a player who knows what he's doing.

It's a bit confusing with the SKILL rank and Level, though. Like most traditional MMORPGs, you gain levels by killing monsters and doing quests, but you also gain a certain amount of Skill EXP by using your special attacks. When you get enough of the damn skill exp, your skill rank goes up, and you gain access to the next batch of special skills and buffs (which you need to buy) and will gain several stat bonuses. It is easy to level up the char, merely doing the quests given per level will allow you to reach half the cap in 3 days of playing, but skill rank is a bit of a grind. There are people who grind only their skill, resulting in some people being able to beat opponents who are 30+ levels above them. This once again makes it harder for high level jackholes to run around PK-ing low levels, because they never know when a skill grinder is going to pop up and humiliate them by smacking them around with high level skills, while wearing weak novice gear.

The only complaint I have is that the game is licensed per region, which means each country or region that acquires a license is contractually bound by the game developers to block IP Addresses from other countries (this is so they can sell the license again to another region and earn more profit). I can't play with anybody except people from my own country, majority of whom are cockwads and cheaters (the GMs from our country try their best to catch hackers and botters, but every once in a while you'll see someone spamming skills without any cooldown and at an impossible speed). Also, asian developers don't spellcheck their games.

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Haze. Surprisingly fun.

You are gay!

Now, I know "Haze" was overhyped, and for most people, a flop. However, when you're playing local multiplayer (splitscreen) it's actually quite good. That's the only way I play PS3 games -- at a friend's place with him, sometimes his wife, and maybe one or two other people. That said, the biggest complaint about "Haze" is the fact that only two can play at a time. That, and playing as Mantle Troopers can sometimes be too easy, particularly against bots. Though, it's kind of nice to be able to do splitscreen online.
Since we play most games with splitscreen in mind, Call of Duty 4 was, surprisingly, a bit of a disappointment to us. While the online multiplayer is good fun, and the campaign is nice, local multiplayer has severely limited options -- no bots, no online play, no stat tracking/unlocks/ranks. More often than not, we find ourselves wanting to play Timesplitters 3 instead of a newer game.

Right now, I am still playing a lot of Mario Kart Wii online.

Oui?

Damn. That's the best one yet!

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Haze. Surprisingly fun.

You are gay!

You are very gay if you rate Haze above COD4.
Go commit splt screen suicide!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Haze. Surprisingly fun.

You are gay!

You are very gay if you rate Haze above COD4.
Go commit splt screen suicide!

COD4 definitely has a better campaign, and the online play is better. As I said though, the lack of options in splitscreen were a big disappointment.

PCG342 nerdy User Still Twitching
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Forum: Arcade Room
Thread: Re: What video game are you playing?

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Haze. Surprisingly fun.

You are gay!

You are very gay if you rate Haze above COD4.
Go commit splt screen suicide!

COD4 definitely has a better campaign, and the online play is better. As I said though, the lack of options in splitscreen were a big disappointment.

You still here?
Cant you even fake split screen suicide properly, you fucking gay?

Playing through Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 in anticipation of the sequels. Also playing Tie Fighter again which is fucking awesome still.

I'm playing the Strong Bad game on WiiWare.

Originally Posted By: rex

Playing through Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 in anticipation of the sequels. Also playing Tie Fighter again which is fucking awesome still.

There's another WarCraft sequel coming out? Or are you referring to Lich King?

They announced it while you were dead.

Civilization: Revolution is pretty FUCKING sweet...

Yup, good game!

Still playing Overlord, but giving this a bash as well

I launched my first nuke yesterday.

Pretty EPIC stuff right there.

By all accounts it is a scaled down version of Civ IV for the PC, but it's still a kick ass game...

Sid Meier built this one from the ground up specifically for consoles.

He took out a lot of the more indepth stuff, which is why it works so well on a console.
If they had tried porting a current version of Civ, it probably would not have worked properly.

I bought it when it first came out, and you can seriously lose track of time playing a game.
Many a night was spent playing it, only to look up and see the clock said 6am!

For me the civ games have always been too involved and slow for the consoles. I'd try this game if I had a DS but I don't see the appeal of it on the consoles.

GRAW2. Not astounding, but certainly fun.

Originally Posted By: PCG342

GRAW2. Not astounding, but certainly fun.

Fuck off!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Yup, good game!

Still playing Overlord, but giving this a bash as well

Have to say, this game was fantastic.
I have never been a huge Tomb Raider fan, and I assumed this was a clone, so avoided it for ages.
Finally picked it up as its a platinum title now, and I wish I had given it a go ages ago.

While there are elements of Tomb Raider in it, its a completely different beast, being less arcadey, and more realistic.

Theres a huge swerve later in the game, as it then becomes a Resident Evil of sorts.

I am not gonna play it again on the hardest level.
Fuck yeah!

spoilers

SWAT 4 Co-op

Besides Mario Kart, I've been alternating between Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time. Again. I can never get enough Zelda.

Can anyone? I haven't played Twilight Princess in the longest time. I put it down so long ago and regret doing so. There's so much to explore it's ridiculous (lantern caves!). There's a couple of problems I have with it but otherwise it's awesome.

Jeopardy!

A little bit of Spore and some Bioshock. I've also played some Force Unleashed at a friend's a couple of times.

In preparation of the inevitable zombie pandemic, I've been going through drill sessions with a Half-Life 2 mod called Zombie Panic Source.

I downloaded that today but haven't played it yet.

Area 51. It's free!

So far it feels like Doom III without the demons.
Not good. Not bad.

KOTOR, Civ 4 (holy fuck! I love this game!) and x-wing alliance.

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Area 51. It's free!

So far it feels like Doom III without the demons.
Not good. Not bad.

Oh lord, I played that on the Xbox when it first came out and it was such shit. I would describe it as more like Halo but without the multiplayer. The Illumanati were such pushovers, I wondered how they managed world domination. Then they threw in David Duchovony for the Mulder speeches.

I still love the arcade game though.

Is that any good...er uh...

PCG342 nerdy User Son of Shaggy and Carrot Top
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Actually downloaded Zombie Panic: Source as well. Kinda fun. For some reason, seems a little slower-paced than I anticipated. Maybe I'll stick with BrainBread.

Just bought that myself the other day for the 360.

Its exactly as I hoped, Oblivion but with guns!
Nice!

I'm not happy with the character generation system or the lack of the Fallout brand's sense of humor, but it has been fun so far. I do like a lot of the Oblivion add-ons like the ability to have a home and putting shit in it to help you, but I could do without the wear-tear system on the armor and weapons. Or, at least, a toned down system.

hm. How bad is that equipment durability system? Hopefully not as bad as System Shock 2... (If you've never played it, your basic pistol could sometimes break down after running two magazines through it, and 90% of the guns you encountered were broken/jammed and.. well. If your weapon repair skill wasn't high enough, you were screwed.)
Also, how are random encounters handled? And what's wrong with the character generation system?

I'm just curious -- it'll probably be a few months before I'm even able to play Fallout 3...

And regarding the "Oblivion with guns" thing, there was once a team working on a mod for Morrowind called "Ashes of Apocalypse," which had a sort of post-apocalyptic Western feel, though they never finished the project. Instead, they switched from Morrowind to Unreal Tournament 3. Stupid idea, if you ask me. Sort of takes away from the novelty of the concept...

I think the main problem you'll have in the game is that your character can't commit suicide.

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Fuck off!

Batman Legos demo

Mirrors Edge demo

spore creature creator demo.

Resident Evil 4. I'm used to playing FPSes with a mouse so I had a hard time adjusting to the gamepad's analog stick being used for targeting, but it became second nature after an hour or so of playing (and dying!).

I like how the character doesn't move like tank anymore, and the red targeting thingie is helpful.

My only complaint is that I can't rape the President's Daughter.

(Hello FBI Carnivore program!)

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

I think the main problem you'll have in the game is that your character can't commit suicide.

Yep, yep. Because there's no subject I take more lightly than suicide.

Fuck off idiot!

i'm almost done with Half-Life 2 and i played some Morrowind today. i already finished that one last yr but i made new character today.

year

Two more letters. It can't be that difficult.

Originally Posted By: rex

year

Two more letters. It can't be that difficult.

i know, it's fun watching idiots like you get all worked up over it.

Stupid people are easily amused.

ha ha ha.

what?

MAME. I just bought a nifty arcade stick for 400 pesos (roughly 7 US dollars) and have downloaded the Marvel/Capcom fighters. The stick feels okay except for the clicking sound.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

The stick feels okay except for the clicking sound.

That's what she said!

$\:lol\:$

Originally Posted By: rex

Stupid people are easily amused.

that would explain basams cartoon postings lately.

You like all the pretty colors, don't you?

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Its exactly as I hoped, Oblivion but with guns!
Nice!

Have you found the National Guard building yet?

Also, it seems I may have accidentally shot a Brotherhood of Steel soilder in the head and scored a critical hit. Free power armor for me. Too bad I can't use it yet.

You can get the power armour off of the bodies of any of the Brotherhood soldiers you stumble on.

Dont think I have found a national guard building yet.
But from what I have been reading, and hearing from other people at work who have it, no two people will have exactly the same story all the way through (I believe there are 51 different endings).

Even the small things such as the GOAT test at the begining, will effect things you can and cant do.
I am currently a small step away from being level 10, and have some shit hot weapons at my disposal.

I read that there's only four "real" endings with small variations of each.

your mom has four "real" endings!

heh

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

The one I got off that guy was 'Brotherhood of Steel Power Armor' and not the regular armor I got off the dudes outside the GNR building. He also had dog tags that the others didn't. He was one of the Paladins.

As far as the armory is concerned, take a bunch pulse grenades and mines as well as a missile launcher.

I think I'm level 8 or 9. Can't remember. I've got a buncha good weapons too. The trouble is finding the same weapons again and again to keep them in good working order. I've picked up several missile launchers and miniguns from the Super Mutants to have those bad boys damn near maxed out on condition and damage. The trouble is finding Combat Armor and Shotguns to keep them going.

I usually go the good guy route the first time through games like this. Right now, I'm having people in Megaton walk up to me and give me shit now because I'm such a cool mother fucker. Also, I kinda skipped over a plot point when I just went walking around and found Rivet City.

Trying to get to Rivet City myself now, but its a bitch to get to.
Made it to level 11 last night as was able to jump two levels in one go, which means more health and can do more damage (and I am still having trouble making it through certain parts).

I love the minigun, but with even my big gun skills upgraded, its still pretty useless if you try to use it in VATS mode.
By far my most useful weapon so far, is the old trusty hunting rifle.
The damage isnt the greatest, but the accuracy is brilliant.

The Flamer (no not Rob) is a fun little weapon as well.

If you go to the museum of history, you can accept an assassins contract, and get handed a rather nice sniper rifle.
I also marks an area on the map called The Republic of Dave, which I am sure will be filled with all the poo you can eat.

I have found its certainly worth doing all the side missions for Moira as this can get you some easy XP and ammunition etc!

I found a bridge to cross the river past Grayditch (I think I took the water treatment plant tunnels to get there). Keep going south from there and you come across the Jefferson Memorial, surrounded by Super Mutants. To the East is another Super Mutant camp. Past that is Rivet City, an aircraft carrier. Found it easier than GNR, but that was because I was trying to go over land and not take the subway tunnels. Found a few other odds and ends, though, while doing that like the National Guard building and Vault-Tec's main office where I was able to download the locations and entrance codes to all the area vaults.

I think this is where its one of the few games that makes it hard to do a walkthrough. A lot of the stuff you do later on is dependant on choices you make early in the game.

I might try going the route you say as have cleared out Grayditch of all hostiles already (this is another touch I like in this game. Enemies stay dead, and dont respawn when you go back somewhere. Even to the point that their bodies never vanish).

That is a cool improvement. I can even dump shit when I reach my load limit, go sell shit, and come back for the rest later with it all still being there. Helps you keep caps in your pocket.

Grayditch fucked me up. I saw an ant and ran up to it with the baseball bat to save ammo. Then the motherfucker breathed fire on me!

Oh, and watch out for the bridge, as Raiders had set up shop underneath it on the eastern side. If you've already found the Tepid Sewers or Dukov's place, you can fast travel there and just head south along the shoreline.

Think I have found the tepid sewers (hard to remember as I think I have found something like 40+ places now).

I went to Greyditch early on, and kept getting fried by those fucking ants, so I gave up on it for a while and went back when my level was alot higher and I had more ammo and weapons.
Second time round it was pretty easy to clear out.

A lot of shotgun and assault rifle fire helped me out on that one, along with a bunch of stimpacks. I also used the 'fire ant nectar' you can get from some of the ants that gives you +25 fire resistance. I still carry some around with me to protect against the guys with flame throwers. Did you kill the scientist down there, or did you get him to augment you?

The problem I'm having now is that, besides the regular ole ambushes you'll get coming out of subways, sewers, etc. by Raiders and Super Mutants is that I've got a bounty of 1000 caps on my head from being such a good guys; so fucking mercs keep showing up, trying to take me out. Luckily, if they're near Super Mutants, those two will fight each other; so I usually hide, waiting for one side to wipe out or wear down the other before I come rushing in with grenades and minigun fire.

I got him to upgrade me so I am now stronger and more fire resistant all the time!

I have come into contact with Talon compant from time to time, but they are really easy to wipe out.
Just been to Rivet city, which helped me complete the quest with Brian from Grayditch, and also helped me get another assassination done for the Ghoul up at the museum.

One of the useful perks i have now is that animals such as dogs and mole rats no longer attack me. And if I upgrade that perk to level 2, they will even help me out if I am attacked by anything that isnt a fellow animal!

I know what you mean about the mercs and mutants etc.
At first I didnt realise, and would go in all guns blazing trying to kill the mutants, but then I realised it was better to wait for one side to finish the other off first, then steam in, like you say!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

I got him to upgrade me so I am now stronger and more fire resistant all the time!

My mom used to work at a veterans home and one of the old guys used to say something similar to that all the time.

Steve Rogers was the bomb in Veterans home yo!

Found one of the nearest vaults to 101 and Megaton, Vault 106. Seems like they're pumping some gas in there that drove the vaultdwellers ape shit. The survivors will run up to with knives, bats, and sledgehammers trying to cut you down. Also, the gas makes you hallucinate and see people who aren't really there. Kinda like college all over again.

tonight i start gears of war bitches!!!

not Gears of War 2?

LOL

damnit jeff. you know what i meant...

I've gotta say that I'm enjoying the game a good deal. I'm still unhappy that the trademark Fallout humor isn't as present in this game as previous. It's there, but mostly in the load screens and some of the messages on computer terminals you come across. I've yet to come across the over-the-top, zany characters that used to populate the other games. It's like Bethesda thinks that the great thing about Fallout was being able to say 'fuck' a lot. It's not. It's being able to say 'fuck' a lot with a smile.

I will say that they've got the look of Fallout down. It's great to see many of the classic Fallout objects in 3-D rendering finally. Megaton is a good example of where they took the classic concepts and expanded them for a 3-D realm.

That Brian kid in Grayditch did make me laugh when he was repeating stuff his dad had said, but had no idea what it means!

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

tonight i start gears of war bitches!!!

Gears of war bitches?
Is that what you call your new boyfriends?

Played some Guitar Hero for the first time today. I sucked at it but had fun.

beat Gears 2 today. damn that game was fun...

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

That Brian kid in Grayditch did make me laugh when he was repeating stuff his dad had said, but had no idea what it means!

Finally, I'm starting to see more of the humor that's been missing from the game. Characters like the ones in Andale are what's been missing in this game. I've also stumbled across a hidden vault that had my dad in it, which means that I've skipped at least two quests. Now, the game takes the classic Fallout turn, I've met up with the Brotherhood of Steel proper, found out about what's going on and who those Outcasts I keep running across in the wastes are, and been trained to use power armor.

Mortal Kombat vs DCU!!!

Also picked up Call of Duty: World at War.

Finished Fallout 3 last night.
What a shitty fucking ending, with no ability to free roam like you could in Oblivion, so you can find some of the sub missions you missed.

I am starting again though, and this time I am gonna be an evil cunt rather than the big hero.

I've heard people complain about the ending, but I don't know the specifics and whether or not it's simply because you can't free roam. If so, then I don't give a shit because that's how all the Fallout games are. The fun is in replaying the games and doing things differently to open up other avenues that weren't available the last time. Now you can blow up Megaton, turn in the android, become a slaver/cannibal/"vampire" or take over the Republic of Dave. I don't know how Bethesda has worked out the story of the game; but in the original, you could decide to join the bad guys at the end or even end it by talking the bad guy out of his evil plot rather than fighting him.

Also, I got a line on the most powerful power armor in the game. It's supposed to give you all the bonuses with none of the negatives.

The biggest problem with the end is its all so anti-climatic.
I dont want to spoil the end, but there isnt much of a challenge to it, and the end video (if you wanna call it that) is pretty lame!

The fact there is no free roam (which you could do in Oblivion), is a bit annoying as well.

Another thing I disliked is the fact that if you are playing the storymode, and have done a lot of the side missions early, you only get to wear power armour for a short time, as it only becomes available to wear, right at the end of the game.

Its definetly got a high replayability factor as everyone I know who is playing it, is having a totally different experience.

I also hope they can come up with some kinda patch for the PS3, as its bugged to fucked.

The only problems I've come across is the occasional radscorpion stuck in the ground or wall.

How far after meeting up with the Brotherhood and before going to the irradiated vault is the end of the game, cuz that's where I am. I've got quite the assortment of power armor now. I wear Brotherhood armor for the plus two strength to carry around a buncha shit to sell that I get off of the dead bodies. I gots lots of Enclave Armor from their ambushes (mother fuckers will set down in a helicopter next to you) and an even better form of Enclave Armor called Tesla Armor. No bonuses to stats, but it's got close to a 50 DR.

Also, for the ultimate power armor, if you meet Crowley in Underworld, he'll give you a list of anti-ghoul 'bigots' to kill. 100 caps for shooting them in the head like a zomibie movie and 25 for any other death. Do some talking around, and you will find that there's more to him than what he says. Talk again and expose the fact that you suspect something is going on. He won't tell you exactly what he's doing, but you can talk him into giving you the 100 caps per kill no matter what. He just wants the keys that the men (Tenpenny, Dave (Republic of Dave), Ted Strayer (Rivet City), and Dukov) have. These keys are supposed to open a room to the power armor in Fort Constantine.

I have the Fort Constantine power armour. Its a medic suit, which I didnt find to be that great.

Once you have done you power armour training, you basically walk around the citadel a bit looking at computers, then have to head off to vault 87 to get the GECK.
After that, its a quick assault on the memorial/project purity, and game over!

ps: there are only really three keys, and you dont actually have to kill the men Crowley wants you to.

Stealth Boy and pickpocket.

Apparently, that's also how you rig the election in the Republic of Dave.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Stealth Boy and pickpocket.

Nah, just talk to em.
I killed Dukov and Strayer before I sussed out Crowley isnt as honest as I thought, after speaking to Dave, he gave me the key without any problems and Tenpenny clued me in to Crowleys plan.

Tenpenny is the key to getting the true story, but does not have a key!

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Apparently, that's also how you rig the election in the Republic of Dave.

I seem to remember that I was just able to talk people into re-electing Dave.
Charisma goes a long way in this game!

That's the default. You can convince two people to run against him, but no one else will vote for anyone but Dave. Once everyone has voted and Dave opens the ballot box, you can grab all the votes for Dave out of the box. He'll leave the Republic in defeat and walk into a couple of Deathclaws that will shred him apart. At least that's what I've been told will happen by a friend who has the game. He also told me round about where the crashed alien ship with the Alien Blaster is. I'm on vacation from tomorrow until the first of the month, so I plan on doing a lot more farting around before finishing the game. Thanks for the heads up about the ending, as I was damned close to it.

I had a feeling I was close to the end, and decided to go off doing some exploring (I had an explorer perk which opened all the locations on the map), but was only finding caps and ammo etc, no side missions, so I grew bored and carried on with the story.
Much to my chagrine, I hadnt realised just how close to the end I was, and had to end up finishing the game!

I reached level 20 sometime last week, so there was also no more levelling up options, which made the game lose some of its shine as well!

The original Fallouts capped at 20, and it actually makes sense that this version would as well. With far less skills than the Elder Scrolls games, continued leveling would allow you to max out every skill and gain most, if not all, of the perks.

Oh, and I took the Grim Reaper perk at 20 that immediately refills my VATS action points if I kill someone in VATS. Useful underground with the ghouls, radscorpions, and molerats.

Molerats I have no prob with as I have the animal friends perk, and I also have a ghoulskin mask which stops feral ghouls from attacking.
All very useful.

I fucking hate radscorpions tho!

I have the mask, but not the perk. I likes shooting them in the head with VATS too much to use either. Combat shotgun, mother fuckers!

The animal perk is actually pretty usefull if you go to level two of it.
If anyone attacks me and molerats, wild dogs, brahim and yao guai are about, they will attack my enemies.
yao guai are pretty damn impressive at killing!

i know its old but i finally finished splinter cell: double agent. it was pretty good. Ending was kinda weak but ill play it again to see if i can get a different one...

Nobody gives a damn about what you are playing.

fuck off!!!

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

fuck off!!!

Say it with more conviction, ya gay cunt!

FUCK OFF WITH MORE CONVICTION!!!

Thats not what I said.
I said say "it" with more conviction!

I never learned to read

That will be because of your slitty eyes!

The better to see you with, bambi!

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

I have the mask, but not the perk. I likes shooting them in the head with VATS too much to use either. Combat shotgun, mother fuckers!

Have you found the alien crash site?
The alien blaster is a devasating lil weapon!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

I have the mask, but not the perk. I likes shooting them in the head with VATS too much to use either. Combat shotgun, mother fuckers!

Have you found the alien crash site?
The alien blaster is a devasating lil weapon!

Yeah, I'm saving that bitch for the Enclave since their armor is pretty impervious to anything but energy weapons and missiles.

Red Alert 3 demo.

Its fucking awesome.

Just ignore who they replaced Tanya with.

I plan on getting Super Street Fighter II: Turbo HD Remix today (at least I think it comes out today).

Also, I got an invite to download Home (beta) so I guess I will give that a try too.

I'm really tempted to get SF2THDR. But I know I'll get my ass kicked by everyone I play it with.

Probably, but there is always Quarter match mode which sounds pretty cool-

Game Features:
All new 1080p high-definition art for Street Fighter characters and backgrounds created by Udon Entertainment, creators of the Street Fighter comic books
Features all 17 of the original Super Street Fighter® II Turbo characters including Ryu, Guile, M. Bison, and Akuma
New optional "Rebalanced" Mode: massive changes across the board to all Street Fighter characters as created and tested by some the world's top-ranked professional Street Fighter players
One to two player head-to-head play either offline or online
Single player vs. CPU
Player vs. player over the same console
Player vs. player online
Training mode helps fighters hone their skills
Improved network code for the best possible online fighting game experience

Numerous online features:
In-game voice chatting between players
Matchmaking flexibility through multiple options
Personal and friends statistics tracking
Quarter Match Mode- this spectator-based system allows online competitors (two competitors and up to four spectators) to use a "virtual quarter" to "buy into" heated two player matches
Comprehensive worldwide rankings and leader boards by character - tracks overall wins and losses, number of throws, perfects, highest combos and more
Widescreen support with option to select classic 4:3 mode for SF purists
Choose from either classic Super Street Fighter II Turbo music or optional newly remixed tunes created by OverClocked Remix
Option to play as the original Super Street Fighter II Turbo 2D sprites for traditionalists

LoK: Defiance

Played rock bank for the first time last night.

Or I should say attempted to play the rock band drums last night. I've never had a video game make me feel so old.

currently working on Twilight Princess

I think I'm going to start playing that one again as soon as I finish Link to the Past and Ocarina Master Quest, again.

I don't have a lot of game time with the semester winding down toward finals week the way it is, but I still manage to fit in a little city of heroes every so often. once finals are done I'm going to start playing back through the original half-life because I'm working on a screen adaptation for gooz's online movie-game-thing and could use the immersion.

I'm playing through Fallout 3 again.
This time I am concentrating on the side missions more, and intend on visting every location on the map before I pay more attention to the main storyline!
Amazing how quick you can level up second time around, as you make better decisions with perks etc, and have a better grasp of the controls etc.

This time I around I have had no issues with bottle caps, ammo or stimpaks.
I have nearly 15000 bottle caps and around 80 stimpaks in my posession right now.

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

currently working on Twilight Princess

The trials in Gerudo are a pain in the ass.

Is Gerudo you're new boyfriend?

Do you climb plastic walls? No? Then how did you get out of the abortion bucket?

Originally Posted By: rex

Is Gerudo you're new boyfriend?

You've told some lame gay jokes in the past...that is by far the worst.

It was a honest question, not a joke.

Fable 2, Force Unleashed downloadable stuff, getting started on Tomb Raider...

Just picked a few up in the sales:

And waiting for these to be delivered:

Call of Duty: World At War

Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories

Finally beat Twilight Princess, now it's on to Chrono Trigger on the DS.

It's funny how you and I are both playing what are essentially remakes of games that are several years old.

That is hilarious.

You two should totally make out.

Originally Posted By: King Snarf

It's funny how you and I are both playing what are essentially remakes of games that are several years old.

They're remade cause they're great games.

Oh, and please get your hand off my thigh.

Steal his cock, jermemmy! It's still in mint condition.

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

Originally Posted By: King Snarf

It's funny how you and I are both playing what are essentially remakes of games that are several years old.

They're remade cause they're gay games.

Oh, and please get your hand further up my thigh.

Originally Posted By: King Snarf

It's funny how you and I are both playing what are essentially remakes of games that are several years old.

you really have the personality of a dog turd

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Steal his cock, jermemmy! It's still in mint condition.

$\:lol\:$ Ass.

Wrath of the Lich King

Quit warcraft a couple months ago buy they're offering a free ten day trial for anyone who's ever had an account. I'm enjoying it so far.

That whole "real friends" thing is just a fad.

So is not liking video games.

But Pariah not having any friends is forever.

Hey! I have plenty of friends.

There's Kratos, Torque, Big Boss, Leon, Claire, Ada, PacMan, Qbert, the two Z's from Tetris, and tons of others.

Fallout Tactics: BoS (I finally recruited Riddick!)
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men -- Co-Op is fun but frustrating, and the game seems awfully short; we finished half of it in a single night.
Monster Madness: Grave Danger -- fun, mindless zombie brawler. Vehicle controls suck, though.
Resistance 2

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Hey! I have plenty of friends.

There's Kratos, Torque, Big Boss, Leon, Claire, Ada, PacMan, Qbert, the two Z's from Tetris, and tons of others.

Yeah, about that, Pac really doesn't like you now that he's married...

All he does is sit at home and munch down the power pellets ever since they had the kid.

Marriage really makes a man bitter, course...so does the other extreme.

Played a lot of Rock Band yesterday. I'm still terrified of the drums but I'm getting really good at the guitar and singing is harder than I thought.

I'm beginning to see why these games are so popular. I just wish there was a better song selection.

Vocals and drums are about the only parts of those games at which I am good. I can do okay with base, but I suck at the guitar on Rock Band and GH. After watching me and several of my guitar playing friends fail miserably at the game, I've come to the conclusion that it has something to do with actually being able to play the guitar.

Bullshit, the guitars are controllers with buttons. I forget if it was Slash or Joe Perry that said learning the game is not like playing a real guitar.

I've done bass guitar and vocals, and suck at both. But I don't own the game, so there.

If you can't do bass, you're retarded.

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

I can't tell if you are really disagreeing with me or not. What I am saying is that if you play a real guitar then you will have trouble with playing the guitar with RB or GH. Guitar players, at least myself and those that I hang around, instinctively treat the controllers like they are guitars rather than controllers. And, because of that, really suck at the games.

Some of the best players I have found have been the people who play around with the guitar, but have never really learned to play it.

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

Bullshit, the guitars are controllers with buttons. I forget if it was Slash or Joe Perry that said learning the game is not like playing a real guitar.

In which case, it would make sense that someone who plays guitar might have difficulty with it.
If it was like playing guitar, then they wouldnt have any trouble now would they!!

JEREMY

WHY THE LIES

I am Wreck-gar. I just beat Diddy Kong Racing last week using the badger guy with a Boston accent.

Hello wreck-gar.

Do not talk to Wreck-Gar, he is a bad person

I am Wreck-gar. I am a bad person.

Originally Posted By: iggy

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

this is true my bro plays guitar and when he first tried to play rock band it was weird to him because of the difference in the timing an feeling. but it didnt take him long to ace it on the hardest setting which was amazing. cause , well actually, no one i know that has never had lessons for real can pass it on that setting. lol we just dont have to coordination like my bro and friends who actually play instruments do.

same with the drums. its way different then playing real drums. there is this like ubber rock band drummer on you tube that plays it on the hardest setting an he played real drums for like 12 years or something. he even said its WAY different.

so if you play rock band or guitar hero, and think you'd like to play the real thing. get some lessons and have at it but dont think playing those games are teaching you how to play for real. cause they are not.

I'm gonna play Metroid Prime 3!

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Just picked a few up in the sales:

My fiancee bought me a 360

These are the games I am playing.

I haven't enjoyed a wrestling game this much in a long time.

ive been obsessed with Lego Star Wars lol

Originally Posted By: Ultimate Jaburg53

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Just picked a few up in the sales:

My fiancee bought me a 360

These are the games I am playing.

I haven't enjoyed a wrestling game this much in a long time.

Haven't played a wrestling game in a long while, but if you enjoyed Vegas, Vegas 2 is definitely worth every damn penny. The AI teammates are retarded as always, but if you play Lone Wolf in singleplayer/Terrorist Hunt a lot, you'll kick all sorts of ass online. That said, if you can coordinate things well enough, co-op can be fun, but once communications fail and things go to shit, you may find yourself wanting to club your partner in the head with a controller.

Originally Posted By: Ultimate Jaburg53

Originally Posted By: Nowhereman

Just picked a few up in the sales:

My fiancee bought me a 360

These are the games I am playing.

I haven't enjoyed a wrestling game this much in a long time.

Its very surprising how good this one turned out, considering how much I hated the last one.
Just do yourself a huge favour, and dont bother with the TNA one.

I sill can't believe they incorporated fire onto the tables abd the barbed wire stake.

That was actually something they started with the 2008 version, but the game played horribly.
Apart from the obvious playability improving, the other big benefits to 2009 have been the tag matches are vastly improved, and you can now buy downloads for other wrestlers and costumes when they make them available!

the 2009 for the ps2 is even a surprisingly good game and i found 2008 to be a big pile of suck.

Originally Posted By: Wreck-gar

I am Wreck-gar. I am a bad person.

he dare's to be stupid!!!

Originally Posted By: Black Machismo

Originally Posted By: Wreck-gar

I am Wreck-gar. I am a bad person.

he dare's to be stupid!!! And I dare to follow!

$\:lol\:$

Just picked up a couple more on the cheap.

Picked up R6:Vegas 2, so I can start playing that as soon as I finish the first one, and Elder scrolls IV:Oblivion again, as I sold the original copy ages ago after completing it, but had a chance to pick up the Game of the year version for under £10, and as I no longer have the original game save (I lost it when my first PS3 died), it gives me the option to replay it from the start, but as a more experienced player, as well as finally being able to play the Shivering isles expansion pack.

Your PS3 died? Are most of them doing that?

nah. it just had a part inside that overheated. think its cause I use it too much and it wasnt ventilated enough!

first one i have ever heard of doing it.

Sony swapped it over while I was at work by courier the next day, free of charge, even though it was out of warranty!
Microsoft on the other hand, make you send the 360 to Germany, then you have to wait 3 weeks or so to get it back.

Just finished Psychonauts downloaded from XBox Live. Got back into playing Mass Effect after a long hiatus because I downloaded the Bringing Down the Sky expansion mission. Once I get Fallout 3 back from a friend of mine, I plan on playing the Operation: Anchorage expansion they just released. I might pick up The Pitt one they're releasing this month. I definitely want the Broken Brotherhood expansion they're doing next month that continues on after the end of the game (which I now understand why everyone was saying it was anti-climactic.).

I have to say, I enjoyed playing the first R6:Vegas, but the sequel is fucking awesome.
Cant quite put my finger on whats better about it, as it seems to be much the same as the first, but I have been addicted to this the last few days (and I only put it on briefly, to test it out as I still havent completed the first one!).

Warriors Orochi 2 (xbox 360)

eh, its okay...

Diablo 2 has become my go to game once again. I keep making new characters and have never made it past act 2.

just played the RE:5 demo today. pretty sweet

Just found these so cheap, I thought I'd give em a try as got both for roughly £10.

Dont expect much from the first one, and Haze I wasnt overly impressed with when I played the demo, but for the money I paid, it wont be a huge loss if I dont like em!

You could always trade 'em in at Gamestop.Just don't fuck up their inventory.

Man, they had lots of copies of Soul Calibur IV at Zavvi.....I lost count how many!

So did Snarf.

He is the weakest link!

I saw that in your avatar.

And it is in no way, shape or form, a photoshopped picture!

Finished Haze a few days ago, and rebought

so started playing that again.
Also, still playing

as well, but of course, it all takes a back seat to

I am now fully back into world of warcraft. I'm not leveling a warrior which is a lot more fun than I expected.

finally got my own 360. picked up left 4 dead, the orange box and ghost recon 2.

kournut is the gamer tag if anyone feels like killing stuff

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

picked up left 4 dead

Fun game!

Still mostly playing Call of Duty:World At War, but with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, inFamous, and Prototype coming out looks like lots of great games to play. I also want to pick up Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena, too.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Still mostly playing Call of Duty:World At War,

been thinking about picking that up for 360. is it worth it?

Oblivion: The Shivering Isles

GTA IV

Waiting on....

Final Fantasy XIII

Tekken VI

Batman: Arkham Asylum

A new fucking Hitman game....grumble...grumble...

Just bought Assault on Dark Athena. Replaying Butcher Bay before I get to Assault.

I probably shouldn't have spent the money, but...Dammit, I wanted it.

Originally Posted By: Lucius Prometheus Vorenus

Oblivion: The Shivering Isles

I love Oblivion, and started replaying it recently, but I have to say, I fucking hate the Shivering isles expansion.
It annoys the fuck out of me!

How so?? I think it's awesome. What are you hating about it?

Its just so bloody annoying. Nowhere near as many shops to trade at.
Nowhere to level up your skills.
Barely anywhere to sleep!

I've just found another reason to hate this expansion.
I have had two swords vanish from my inventory, and now have no way of getting them back.

A few days ago, Dawn/Dusk fang just vanished, which I thought that maybe I'd disgarded it by accident, but today its done the same with the Sword of the crusade!

Whoa!! I'll have to check my closet to see if Dawnfang is still in there. Sounds like you got a corrupted save file. Go back to the previous one...

So, hey, seeing as you have Dusk/Dawnfang, then you must have killed that third guy to be drawn into the temple's torture games. I drove the first two insane, so I didn't get their stuff. Did you kill them all? If so, what stuff did you get from them?

I killed em all.
Dont remember what I got from them as that was ages ago.

Probably sold it anyway as the only thing i kept (until it vanished) was that sword!

Playin' Civ IV...getting FUCKED on the middle difficulty, this game is tough...

Is that the PC game or the one for the PS3?

PC...I was good at Revolutions for the 360, the computer version is a different story. Fucking computer cheats like fuck, either that or I'm doing something terribly wrong.

I found a good website for strats, but I don't feel like reading a 25 page PDF file right now...

Love this game.
In essence its a fairly basic action/adventure game akin to something like Tomb Raider, but the fact you can chop peoples limbs or head off, is pretty sweet.

My personal favourite kill so far has been jumping onto a helicopter, pulling the pilot out through the windscreen, then shoving his head up into the spinning rotars.

The cut scenes are brutal as well, with lots of blood spray and squelchy noises as people are gutted.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Holy shit. I just installed it this morning and I've already missed half a day's worth of work.

Screw Activision, though. Cheap force feedback gamepads will not work and will crash the game at startup (I've seen that there are a lot of complaints about this problem online, not just with my particular brand of pad). Had to uninstall my drivers and use the one that came with windows, which means no force feedback.

The game itself is basically just X-Men Legends II with more polish and different skins. In fact, turning off advanced lighting makes the game look like X-Men Legends II. But that advanced lighting thingie is awesome, makes the graphics look halfway photorealistic, with the disadvantage of effectively reducing the framerate on crappy videocards.

Plants VS Zombies

Played the demo. This might be another excellent popcap game. I'll probably give in and buy it on steam tonight.

Holy fuck. CIV 4 complete with colonization is on steam for only 35 bucks. Its usually 40. That's damn cheap for a collection with that much game play.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Just rebought this for the PS3 last week.
It is a good game, but can get a bit repetitive after a while, which is why I got rid of it before.
Most annoying thing though is the gaps between game saves on some levels.
I found myself running right back to the begining of the level several times, just to save the game.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

My personal favourite kill so far has been jumping onto a helicopter, pulling the pilot out through the windscreen, then shoving his head up into the spinning rotars.

I just played the demo and that part was in it. This is the Wolverine game that is actually a Wolverine game. I'll be picking this one up eventually.

Originally Posted By: rex

Plants VS Zombies

Played the demo. This might be another excellent popcap game. I'll probably give in and buy it on steam tonight.

I figured out what this game is. Defend your castle + desktop tower defense. I enjoy those types of games but when you add them together they're a lot more fun.

The 360/PS3/PC version is called the uncaged edition, and it is indeed a proper Wolverine game (it is 18 rated here), with you actually being able to impale people on spikes, gut them with your claws, rip limbs off, behead or rip someone in half.

The PS2/Wii/PSP/DS versions are not the uncaged edition, and are missing all the blood and guts etc (it only has a 16 rating).

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Yeah, that game was a lot of fun. Iceman's solo mission was a pain in the ass, though....

like inventory.....

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

That part was indeed awesome! I finally got this and play some yesterday. I love it.

After beating and playing through a good part of all the extra stuff in plants VS zombies I think its safe to say that popcap is now one of the few AAA game studios for the PC.

inFamous. Good, solid game!

Left 4 Dead...what a pile of wank. I seriously hate this game, but I want to get some more Achievements out of it before I throw it out the window.

Halo 3...it's not too shabby; not my favorite, but it has it's moments...

Really @Left 4 Dead? I thought it was fun!

he has no friends to play with

No, man...it's just pure chaos. The graphics blow, only one gun has a scope and you can't use it all for the most part, you can only carry one med pack and explosive at a time, it's pure chaos, MP sucks ass, it's pure chaos, on and on...

Gears and even Halo 3 make it look so weak...

I like Left4Dead. Even though I have no friends to play with $\:\($

My only complaint is that it's probably highly unoptimized, as its performance at the lowest settings is roughly half of what I get with HL Source at the highest settings.

That, and I can't see Zoey's tits no matter how many times I shoot the fucking bitch.

In real life when I threaten bitches with a gun I get to see their tits for free.

If you had a 360, I'd be your playmate!

IN THE ASS!

Psychonauts.

Still. Fun.

Ghostbusters

Any good? I've been seeing mixed reviews.

I'm playing online flash games, I made for free at Fyrebug.com!

Gobdamnit, Jeff, don't ignore me, you self righteous bastard. Answer me or I shall rain down upon you a thousand Hells.

No one can stay mad at Jeff Glacier. Face it, you'll only rain down 400 or so Hells.

Doesnt Jeff have enough shit on his plate being married to a deadite?

Originally Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk

No one can stay mad at Jeff Glacier. Face it, you'll only rain down 400 or so Hells.

Normally, I'd agree with you; but I got a great deal on Hells at the market last week and loaded up. Frankly, I really don't have room for all these Hells and need to get rid of them before they spoil.

After playing it some last night I can say this....

It has a nice beat and you can dance to it.

You son of a bitch!

Seriously, though. Is it worth the purchase price?

For fans of Ghostbusters, yes. For anyone else I would say rental. So far I enjoy it. The story is good and feels like a true continuation from part II(the movie). The game is really fun and I am enjoying it. It is a blast to hear everyone play their parts again.

They also added little easter eggs for the fans. For example, when you are in the Ghostbusters HQ, if you wander around to Egon's computer the ending to the original Ghostbusters game is on the screen. They also have Vigo's portrait and you can interact with him.

The only cons I have so far are that:
the characters seem a little stiff
the gameplay can be a bit confusing/difficult sometimes
No option to save manually
Long load times and that is even with the mandatory install.

All in all, so far so good. Worth it to me!

resident evil 5

More Halo 3...also finally broke MK vs. DCU open. Not too shabby, but I'll never complete those Kombo challenges. Those are FUCKED...

Tribes 2. It's old. Very old. Pushing ten years. But it was fairly recently re-re-released as a free game.

Hulk for the PC. The old one based on the Ang Lee/Bana movie. It's infinitely more playable than that crapfest that's based on the Norton movie.

...although frankly I'm getting tired of videogames that are set inside dark, high tech looking science centers or dark gloomy caves and sewers. I spent 1.5k pesos on a decent videocard, it should be good enough to render sunlight and sky.

But you like it in dark places.
Thats where Mxy used to molest you!

mxy only molests livestock!

well you did buy that pantomime cow suit, so you were begging for it really

Originally Posted By: MisterJLA

also finally broke MK vs. DCU open. Not too shabby, but I'll never complete those Kombo challenges. Those are FUCKED...

Word! Those and the ones in SFIV. Ain't never getting those trophies.

Yeah...I bought SF IV when it was on sale during my T.W.A.T. report. I heard that game's challenges and Seth are real fuckers.

I'm a big time 360 Achievement whore, but I'm not bothering with the combo Achievements...

http://www.classic-retro-games.com/GhostBusters_193.html

just got my xbox back online so ill be back into left4dead

I still haven't finished Half Life 2. I need a better computer before getting into it again.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Have you tried the multiplayer yet? I just finished the single player last night.

if you know what he means!

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Have you tried the multiplayer yet? I just finished the single player last night.

Nah not yet.
Got a bit pissed off with the museum level and the possessor ghosts, so aint played it for a day or so.

Fucking love the story video though.
The attention to detail is fantastic, with every scar and blemish being included on each character.
The Venkman lines are pretty classic as well.

Bleach: Heat the Soul 3 and Dragonball Z Shin Budokai: Another Road for the PSP.

Bleach HTS3 has great graphics and a fairly straightforward control scheme, but very little replayability (something's wrong with a 1vs1 fighting game that can't be played over and over). It's a good game but only for a few hours.

...it's amusing, though. We almost always complain that big videogame sites' reviews can be a little bit skewed, and we'd rather trust the consensus formed by consumer reviews. But it doesn't apply for Bleach: Heat the soul, probably because everybody who bought the game and took the time to write a review is a drooling fanboy of the anime it was based upon. I didn't see anybody who rated it below 8.5, and everybody's saying how it's an awesome, exceptional game, even if you're not a fan of the series. The truth is the game is boring and will not stand on its own merit if you're not a fan of the series. Hell, I'm a fan of the series and I still thought it was boring after an hour or so of play.

Dragonball Shin Budokai 2, on the other hand, is an exceptional fighter even if you're not a fan of dragonball. It's even better than the ones on the Ps2, and the oversimplified controls is actually a plus, as it allows you to do what you'd really want with the characters, when you want it. (Press Down + Circle to go super saiyan, press Up + Circle to perform a huge beam attack, hold circle to charge, etc.)

....also have Naruto Ultimate Ninja Heroes. My impression of it is the same as the DBZ one above. My only complaint is that ninjas are not supposed to look that way. Why are they wearing bright clothes? Ninjas wear black because they need to blend in with the dark and be stealthy and shit. How are they gonna be stealthy with an orange suit? Are they trying to blend in with the environment while PJP and hulk hogan are having mansex?

All three seem to share the same oversimplified controls, with specials only requiring only 2 button presses, but the Bleach game sucked because the fighters tend to be slow, and the fights seem to be over in a few seconds. It sucks that you have these awesome special skills and transformations and glowing shit, but you won't be able to see it because the fight's over after 8 button presses.

Your mom. I'm playing your mom right now. Because she's a videogame.

Originally Posted By: rex

I still haven't finished Half Life 2. I need a better computer before getting into it again.

I have a single GTX 260, but the game still freezes up at times. I have everything on high, but that really shouldn't happen.

Still digging MK vs DCU. Superman is a bad mutha...

Shut yo mouth!

I'm only talkin' bout Superman!

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Have you tried the multiplayer yet? I just finished the single player last night.

Ok, finished it this afternoon, but still not bothered with the online yet.
Thought the documentary about the restoration of Ecto 1 was cool.

Now not sure if it was just me, but did the end bosses seem to get easier and easier towards the end?
In fact, I was having more trouble with some of the ghosts like the possessors than the end bosses.

Still having problems with the online, and apparently its because for some wanky reason, the online aspect of the game is region locked so Americans can only play against Americans, Europeans against Europeans and Japs against Japs etc.

Only problem with this is, when you try look for games to join, it displays games from all regions with no indication of where they are, and you only find out you cant join the game after it tries to connect.

So basically you have to click on every game until you find one thats in your region.

Fucking stupid idea.
I thought the idea of online gaming was that you can play against anyone in the world.
I understand this is the same with the 360 as well.

It is the perfect game for racists!

Originally Posted By: MisterJLA

Your mom. I'm playing your mom right now. Because she's a videogame.

I can't play your mom because she's region coded!

$\:damn\:$

I hear King Snarf was region coded in life.
Only problem is his region includes just one person.

That's actually really deep. It belongs in Sikk's blog.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I can't play your mom because she's region coded!

Nicely played.

Glacier agrees.

Yup!

Is "No Mercy" any good? I was excited when I caught news of a new Punisher game but it looks just like a generic budget shooter to me.

Shut the fuck up!

I love you too, Nowie!

Fuck off!

Peggle: World of Warcraft edition

Its ten free levels of peggle. With Warcraft backgrounds. I'm such a whore for both.

Originally Posted By: rex

I'm such a whore

runs in the family i guess...

that's clever.

Unreal Tournament III's campaign is disappointing as shit. Actually, the game itself doesn't hold a candle to the first two UT games. Though if anyone wants to run a co-op or Duel, PM me, and if my internet connection cooperates, I'll add ya.

I'm playing Monkey Island 5! I find that I enjoy it much more with the voices turned off.

They announced a PC version of that game today at comic con. Its also the best selling download only game on consoles.

Its not surprising its done so well, its only got 4 islands and is online only, so its about a quarter of the price of a normal game, but has the graphics and gameplay you expect from a current gen console, unlike so many of the downloadable games.

It uses the same game engine as Battlefield:Bad company, so anyone familiar with that on the consoles will be able to get into this straight away.

The only thing I dont like about it at the moment is that the planes are bloody difficult to control.

the planes can only be controlled by gay people

Thank god I cant control them.

Burnout only has one map, but still has more variety and allows you to race in different-looking places, in either night or day. Need for Speed Carbon kinda bummed me out that I always have to race at night so all the stages looked the same.

Upgrading my shit videocard with a less shit videocard is totally worth it. This is the first time I've been able to run games at max settings. And the first time I've seen my PC churn out PS3 level graphics. The crashes looked fairly realistic and I'm not sure if it's FMV or done in-game as the transition between the gameplay and the crash scenes are seamless.

Only complaint I have with burnout is it gets annoying because the background music always starts with Paradise City, which is an awesome song except if you have to listen to it a lot.

madden 10. kicking ass as a free saftey for the dolphins...

Marvel vs. Capcom 2

I just installed this today. Am now at the part where Logan has to escape the weapon x facility. I'm currently having a hard time trying to get out of the floodgate because Logan's weakness is water.

The only thing I found difficult on this game is the final battle with Deadpool.
I played it on normal mode, and that cunt was almost impossible to defeat, so you can imagine that when I played the game on the hardest level, I kinda gave up with trying to defeat him!

I am going to find a trainer for when I get to him. Fuck deadpool.

I like this game. I didn't expect it to be so good because I have the PSP version, which is shit. The graphics and gameplay look like a playstation 1 game. The only thing that it has in common with the PC version is the FMV cutscenes.

To my understanding, the PC, PS3 and 360 all had this version (the uncaged edition, as it was called) but the Wii, PSP and PS2 all got the shitty, nuts cut off version, with slightly different game play, and next to no blood n gore.
I saw a clip of the Wii version, where the fight with Creed takes place on the back of a moving log truck, rather than the cabin and the yard outside the cabin.

victorcreed?

No; Creed. Wolverine's pissed that they got back together.
Rightfully so.

Didn't you fake kill yourself the other night? Again?

Oh, absolutely, Rex.

... You fuckin' retard.

Originally Posted By: PCG342

No; Creed. Wolverine's pissed that they got back together.
Rightfully so.

Shut the fuck up you moron.
You dont even get the reference.

Online Physics Games

USB cable + male/male audio connector + PSP fat + Remotejoy lite + xpadder = Tekken Dark Ressurection on my PC.

only drawback is that the PSP only has a 480 x 272 max screen resolution so fullscreen kind of makes the games look like a PS1 game.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

male/male audio connector

GAY

DONT JUDGE THAT BOY!

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Hey Jeffonious, have you played Quantum of solace yet?
It actually uses the same game engine as the legendary Modern Warfare, so you should enjoy it.

Sadly, just like COD4, the story mode is too short, but the online obviously works similar to COD4 online!

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

I will now! I normally skip Bond games (yeah, even Goldeneye), but that sounds like one I'd like.

I picked up the collectors edition yesterday for £12, so I'd assume you can pick it up cheap in the USA as well!

In fact, just looking at Amazon.com, you can pick up the standard version off marketplace for $16 or so.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Batman: Arkham Asylum

yup. and it is kick ass!

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Can you hide in the same spot in Quantum of Solace in MP, too?

-Jeff

$\:lol\:$

Downloaded the demo of "WET."

This game is gonna kick all sorts of ass...

It was cack!

Nothing, my fiancee's sister's two year old stood on my xbox while I was at work and it hasn't worked since.

Sell the kid and use the money to buy a new 360.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Sell the kid and use the money to buy a new 360.

What he said!

I'm trying to get this fucker apart. The 360. I was doing great until the black screws. I just seem to have the right size torx.

Whoa, dude.

M$ has those fuckers covered three years after your purchase. Just don't tell them about the kid standing on it...or how you tried to take it apart!

My friend bought a used 360 really cheap. It didn't work and the previous owner had opened it, which voided the warranty. My friend used some Youtube tutorials to erase all evidence of the machine having been opened, and voila, Microsoft gave him a new one.

Dell has been selling them for about 20 bucks less but you need to find the coupon codes. I saw them a couple days ago but now I don't know where they are.

Check under the bed.

No, that's where you mom is.

I'm neither your mother nor under your bed, rex.

Think I've fixed it.

RAWK ON!

i just finished fallout 3 on ps3. awesome game. i have resistance 2 but i really hate the 2 player part of it compared to resistance.

Resistance 2's multiplayer sucked. Getting my ass handed to me in GRAW2 on the hardest difficulty...

Just found out that my PC can run PCSX2 at fullspeed with some of the less demanding games, so I've been shifting between WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2009, Naruto Ultimate Ninja 3 and Dragonball Z: Infinite World since last night. All are fun, but the anime games are a bit too simplistic, with much of the fun factor coming out of unlocking extras.

I had dragonballs, but medicated powder fixed it.

$\:lol\:$

$\:lol\:$ $\:lol\:$

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

What are your system specs? And the last time I tried PCSX2 (probably 3 years ago) it was buggy as all hell. I'm assuming they've worked out most of the issues?

- Pentium E5200 2.5 Ghz (the non-core 2 duo name is a bit misleading, since this is still a core 2 duo with a reduced L2 cache, based on the 45nm wolfdale core, it's a little bit faster than c2ds based on the 65nm conroe core clock for clock). Stock, I never overclock.

- 2gb of ddr2 800 mem, in single channel mode since I only have one dimm.

- geforce 9500 GT

- here's the cincher: I run PCSX2 on winxp 64 bit. I dual boot between my old 32 bit xp and xp 63 bit(because I was afraid that I have programs that won't run), and it seems that PCSX2's performance is almost halved when run on winxp 32 bit, using the same settings and hardware)

- Also, a lot of tweaking before I found speed hack settings that work fine on all of my games. Some speedhacks in the VU section actually reduce performance.

Yeah. I'm not even gonna try my luck with that. My computer's about half as powerful.

my e-penis is bigger than your e-penis.

GAZE AT THE SHEER AMOUNT OF MY DICK THAT YOU ARE SUCKING.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

my e-penis is bigger than your e-penis.

Pics or it didn't happen, damn it.

IT IS QUITE A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT, I TELL YOU.

PENIS SUBSTANTIATOR!

Finally got a 360! I'm playing Fable2 and Project Gotham 4. I fucking love this system already. I'm Doog the Mighty if any of you're on LIVE

Played WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2009 again. The engine is good but the roster sucks. I mainly just use the ones that are already in past WWE games, the unlockable characters are shit, Ric Flair is about the only unlockable character I care about.

That would make a good SAHOG entry...

No, it won't!

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Not sure about the PC version, but there seemed to be a lot of promise with the PS3 and 360 versions, with downloadable content available for the first time, with extra people being added to the roster, but after only two download packs, they stopped it.
Here they had a chance to add a shit load more characters, and make more money off people, and all they gave us was a handful of new additions to the roster, some shitty older characters like Doink and the Bushwhackers and a few costume changes.

For my money, they need to make this game two yearly instead of yearly, and release semi-regular downloadable content to add on newer signings, anyone they missed from the initial game, costume changes and maybe some extra arenas or something.
That would probably make them more money in the long run, and would give them more chance to develop a game thats a seriously radical step up from the previous game.

Been switching back and forth between quite a few games recently.
Heavily played Fallout 3 again the last few days because of the Broken steel download pack finally became available.
Fear 2 has also made a comeback due to the Reborn download being released as well.
Also been playing Batman Arkham for the challenges.
Eat Lead, Quantum of solace, F1 championship edition, Rainbow six Vegas & Civ Rev have all taken up some time.
Also finally completed Force Unleashed as I started from scratch due to the game now having a trophies system. Will be downloading the add on packs when I get a chance as well.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I'm playing the PS2 version, and I think my complaint about the shitty roster is a fault on my side, as I haven't watched the WWE in a long time so a large number of characters on the game don't stand out for me, they just look like a bunch of generic guys with long hair and tights. It kinda felt like I'm just playing the same character with just a different skin, and I couldn't care for the difference in movesets.

I would have preferred the difference in characters from the attitude era at least or older, when wrestlers were more cartoony and would lend themselves well to videogames. The Legends of Wrestling roster would have been fine for me, but the engine for that game is shitty. I hate button mashing.

The larger than life, almost comic book characters of the past just seem laughable in this day and age, with few exceptions, which is why most wrestlers these days have actual names rather than gimmick names.
Sadly, as you say, unless you are overly familiar with the current WWE, then it doesnt translate as well to the video game genre.

I think you only have to look at some of the gimmick names that have cropped up in recent years to see that gimmicks for the most part, dont work anymore.
The Boogieman, for example, probably would have worked 10 to 20 years ago, despite his lack of talent, but in todays day and age it was never seen as scary, just comedic.

As for the Legends of wrestling game, I bought that years ago, and it was just plain awful, bought it, played it for a day or two then took it back to the shop and swapped it as the shop was doing a no questions asked refund policy if you brought a game back within a week.

Of course there is the new WWE Legends of Wrestlemania game, but I dont believe thats on the PS2, and quite frankly when I played the demo, I was unimpressed.
While it uses the same engine as SD vs Raw, the controls are different, and I really did not like them.

I have played WWE SD Vs RAW 09 on the NDS, PS2 and PSP. I find it odd that the PSP version is the best one of the bunch. It's basically the same game as the PS2 version, except that wrestlers are classified as brawlers, high flyers, technicians, powerhouse, and showman. They will have specific signature moves and counters according to their class (some can shift between two styles, i.e. HBK can be a showman or a technical wrestler).

The PS2 version has the best graphics out of all 3.

The Nintendo DS version IS SHIT AND ITS DEATH WILL BE REJOICED. I can forgive the pixelated graphics, since graphics was never really the DS's strong suit, but damn if they didn't ruin the gameplay. It pisses me off that they seemed to use the touchscreen just for the hell of it, even if it breaks gameplay. It's okay if the touchscreen is just an extra, like for taunting or extra movement, but no. You're going to use it most of the time along with the D pad. The buttons are never used. (Basically, you perform moves by doing finger gestures. A grapple is done by making a circular motion on the touchscreen, while a strong grapple is done by making two circular motions.)

The DS version sounds shit. I hate touchscreen games like that. Its no so bad if you are playing something basic like a puzzle game, but action orientated games just dont work with touchscreen.

I'd assume the PSP version has those catagories of wrestler due to its limitations over the PS2 version, where they can throw everything into the mix.
That said, sometimes simplicity is the best thing all round.

I like the PS3 version, its far and away a huge improvement over the turd that was SD vs Raw 2008, which was the only Smackdown game that I got rid of within a month.
I usually get a year of on and off gameplay til the new one comes out, but that one was just god awful control wise.

Of course, the 2010 version is just around the corner, and to be honest, I cant see it being that much different to the 2009 version.

Just reading the SD vs Raw website, and it says that the DS version of 2010 will eliminate the need to use the stylus.
Obviously they realise how shit it was then.

Played through the "Brutal Legend" demo. So far, it looks good. The special moves with your teammate(s?) seem entirely too powerful, though. I'll wait and see how this one turns out.

Its got jack black in it so tards like you will enjoy it.

I'm playing a videogame from the future.

Guys, the future is disturbing.

I remember that game. It was 'Prince of Persia' sci-fi.

It comes with a free comic book

It WILL come with a free comic book, you mean, once technology advances enough to allow those graphics.

I just came on a free comic book. It has a picture of Power Girl.

Son, that's Martian Manhunter.

I came harder!

Wasnt that a Bruce Willis film?

Just dug out Legendary again, as never really got into playing it before, as had too many other games to play, and it seemed pretty weak.
Have actually found it to be reasonably enjoyable.
While I would certainly have been pissed off if I had paid £40 for it, for the £15 I paid, its actually a pretty decent game.

Also, just completed some add on packs for a few games.
Fallout 3 Broken Steel was actually pretty cool, but The Pitt was awful.
Will probably go for Point lookout next as thats apparently the best of the DL content, but will probably DL Mothership Zeta and Operation Anchorage at a later date.

Also completed the DL content for FEAR 2. Reborn is pretty decent overall, with you playing a different character to the main game, and it takes place in different areas to the main game, meaning its all new.
Didnt think the horror element was as good though, and the ending was very weak.

I've just finished Final Fantasy X. I like the game and the story, but could have done without the love story aspect. It was as grating as the anakin/padme aspect of the star wars prequels.

Uncharted 2

Hey Geofforina, let me know where the best hiding places are.

Apparently nowhere. The enemies come to you if you do ;P

How are you managing to survive then? heh heh

If you liked puzzle games like Goblins, play this: http://machinarium.net/demo/

(No download required to play the demo)

Prototype

This game is shit. The system requirements are high but it looks nowhere near as good as Wolverine Origins. Buggy, too. And I don't know, it became boring fast. I was actually excited when I first saw it, kind of reminded me of Infamous but the missions are more boring, especially considering the fact that you are basically invincible. I uninstalled it after I got through the tutorial and finished the first stealth mission (The stealth part goes like this: You absorb a random person, morph into that person and walk past the army guarding your apartment.)

Assassin's Creed.

Maybe it's just because I am too old to appreciate realistic/stealh games, but I find the control scheme for this game needlessly complex. I don't find any of the things Altair does to be that much different from the actions performed by other stealth type characters like Agent 47 or hell, even Wolverine from his most recent game, but the way Altair does it requires me to memorize different buttons to press an shit. Why not just make a context sensitive button?

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

It's one of those games that I found was way too overhyped. It was an ok, fun game; but nowhere near the life altering experience that many reviewers made it sound like.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

It's one of those games that I found was way too overhyped. It was an ok, fun game; but nowhere near the life altering experience that many reviewers made it sound like.

Actually, I think the reviewers were just a buncha cunts, as everyone I know who has played it, says the same as me. It is a beautiful game, and starts out really well, but once you have done the same mission over and over and over again, you quickly lose interest.
I dont agree that the moves are overly complex, or that there is too much to memorize, but I do think there should have been a hell of a lot more variety to the missions.

I also think that the other thing it suffered from is lack of variation in the enviroments.
With games set in a modern era, you can really spice things up by moving from one locale to another, which will mean different architecture or weather etc, but every city in Assassins Creed looks identical.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I pretty much avoided this one because it looked too much like Infamous, and I couldnt see that it would be that great (I wasnt that impressed with Infamous when I played the demo).

Resident Evil 5.

Was blown away by the graphics. Both because it looked very realistic, and because it ran fairly well on my mediocre specs even at the highest detail settings (I'm getting 70+ average fps on the benchmark thingie), Capcom always was good at porting stuff to PC.

Controls are still the same as RE 4, which makes it an improvement over past RE games, as you no longer move like a slow ass tank (now you move like a fast tank!). And I actually thank this and RE 4 for training me on how to play FPSes with a gamepad instead of a mouse+keyboard combo.

Unfortunately, that's all I can praise about the game. Shit, Resident Evil is all about the aura of being scary, is why it became successful even with the crappy controls. The enemies on RE 4 were bad enough, as I don't find the Ganados scary. They're not the traditional zombies, since they burst into those weird looking slimy plant-like things. It's weird, but it's not scary. RE 5 made it worse by setting everything in bright environments. I'm fighting plant monsters in the fucking desert.

That's it, without the dark theme, it's basically an action game where you fight slimy plant bio-monsters. With bad controls. I said the controls are an improvement over past RE games but it's still shit. It's like it can't decide if it's a survival horror third person game or an FPS.

btw, I just upgraded my ISP plan so I have been pirating games like crazy. I'm currently downloading an ISO of He-Man Masters of the universe for the PS2, and some gayporn on the side to really set the mood.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

I pretty much avoided this one because it looked too much like Infamous, and I couldnt see that it would be that great (I wasnt that impressed with Infamous when I played the demo).

Infamous is good. It has more than its fair share of bugs, graphical errors, and some of the missions are repetitious and stupid, but it's still functional and addictive when you get right down to it. The powers are reasonably balanced unlike in Prototype where you're basically a god.

I do have some complaints about the story *cough*, and the building traversal could have been more fluid like in Assassin's Creed, but there's nothing in there time can't fix. And now that the engine's already been made, the sequel will definitely improve on everything.

Right now I'm playing:

I'm playing through the entire trilogy.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

I just got my first Platinum this weekend with this. This game was alot of fun. Overall I think I enjoyed the pacing the most.

The He-man game was incompatible with PCSX2 so fuck it. deleted.

I just installed DiRT. Holy shit the load times on this piece of shit is terrible. It's not an exaggeration to say that I spent more time looking at the loading screen than playing the actual game itself. this shit will be uninstalled and I'm glad I just pirated the shit out of it. The graphics are awesome, though.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

I just got my first Platinum this weekend with this. This game was alot of fun. Overall I think I enjoyed the pacing the most.

Aww shit, this must me a very easy game then.

Fate

Its an older diablo clone but with higher resolutions and better features. I'm not that far into it but I've been enjoying the hell out of it so far.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Just finished it on hard mode.
Amazing game, and its amazing how quickly eleven and a half hours go when you are wrapped up in a story/game like this.

The humour is spot on (whats the scariest thing on the scare o meter of 1 to 10, clowns...ha ha), and the story is better than a good portion of movies these days.
Naughty Dog have proved with this that if you actually use the capabilities of the PS3, you can have a game that beats just about anything.
What they have done is nothing short of amazing, as from what I have read, the game not only utilises near enough the capacity of the blu ray disc, but also 90-100% of the PS3's cell capability.

I also love the fact that they designed it so that it doesnt have to install on your HD like so many other games (yeah, I am looking at you MGS4), and by using a longer load time at the begining of the game, there is no actual in game load wait, meaning smooth transition from level to level, and seemless shifts from gameplay to cutscene and back again.

The graphics are simply phenominal, even better than the first one, and that was damn near perfect.
The gameplay is great, but thats because they stayed true to the original, and didnt try fixing stuff that was broken (in fact they removed stuff like the vehicle driving bits that were the most complained about bits in the first one).

If any game franchise was designed to have movie sequels, then this is it.
Almost a modern day Indiana Jones, without all the stupidity of the Tomb Raider shite.

Time to do it all again I think, to get those missing trophies!

Kingdom Hearts 2. I like. I started playing this with low expectations about the story. I assumed it would be low-key kids crap due to Disney's part, but the story is actually kind of good and has a lot of depth (it's really just a squaresoft game with disney characters), and while majority of the humor is cheesy, there are certain parts that made me snicker.

it's an action rpg similar to zelda, it's not as passive as the traditional turn-based jrpgs, so there's a lot of fun to be had with grinding (and it's not really a grindy game. i just breezed through the unavoidable encounters so that I can continue the story) PLUS there's no "backtrack to all the places you visited and fetch so and so" quests. There's the part about pooh's book but it's not obstrusive, and you tend to find the items just by doing the main quest.

Also, I'm playing on an emulator and upscaling the internal resolution gives sweet results:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I think I am already half way finished on the single player game. It is really short.

It was always gonna be short, I dont think they tried to cover it up. Like the first one, they wanted more emphasis on the online aspect and the single player is just an added bonus.
Been hearing rumours that they may even go for online only in the future.

Originally Posted By: King Snarf

I think I am already three fourths finished on the single player game. It is really short.

Gears of War 2. fucking goegeous cinematics and level design, good story too and the characters were likeable. my only complaint is that the game is fairly short, completing it within a week. But the online Horde and versus gameplay are so fun I haven't played anything else since I bought this

Now that there are decent gamecube and playstation emulators, and that I have downloaded the fuck out of their libraries, I can safely say that the PS2 has a way better games.

Sure, the GC has a lot of first party greats that the PS2 can't top, but the rest of the games are piss poor, even with the same franchises for both consoles, the ones on the PS2 are always so much better. And it's not an issue of one hardware being more powerful than the other, since both systems looked fine to me. Just the games themselves.

Originally Posted By: Stupid Doog

Yeah!

Did you defeat the game on Insane yet?

WWE Smackdown - Here Comes the Pain.

I think this game's difficulty setting is broken (especially Lesnar and Goldberg, the world's strongest jew). I'm playing at easy but the cpu still beats the hell out of me. Strangely enough, I'm having more fun with this than SD vs RAW 2009.

the Jews control gaming.

except for fyrebug.

What is this fyrebug you speak of?

Fyrebug, Inc presents an all new take on online gaming – combining fun, easy-to-play casual games with user-generated content. By taking game development out of the hands of experts, Fyrebug brings the fun of the creation experience to the masses.

Fyrebug.com is a social network built around game creation and play, making it a destination portal for users of all ages. Users can upload songs and images to create unique games that can be embedded anywhere. Every game created on Fyrebug has its own graphics, sounds, achievements, high scores, logo and introductory animation, allowing a user to create a fully featured game in minutes or less. Users can earn points through site use and achievement, making the site an experience unto itself.

Fyrebug, Inc also provides enterprise-level support for partners looking for deeper integration or brand immersion. By utilizing Fyrebug’s unique technology, websites large and small can create user-generated game content that can be seamlessly integrated into pre-existing environments or custom-built minisites.

Fyrebug also rolls on shabbas.

Shit, this Fyrebug is rad!

Rockman Mega World (a.k.a. Mega Man: the Wily Wars) on Genesis

It's really too bad this was never released in the U.S. on cartridge, just on the now defunct Sega Channel. The jumps take some getting used to but the background detail is nice (especially the Ice Man stage.. wow)

Gears of War.

I can't believe the leaps that Gears 2 made from its predescessor. Don't count on your teamates to help much as their A.I. in the first of the franchise sucks. They constantly die and I find myself killing all the Horde by myself while they run into incoming fire and yell out for assistance after 30 seconds into an assault! Not only that but your better off using the Hordes weapons rather than your Lancer assault rifle. Even the chainsaw is fairly worthless as a melee weapon. The only functionality thats better in GoW 1 than GoW 2 is the enemy A.I. on Hardcore settings. Those fuckers are smart! They'll actually distract you while one of their guys will flank you and shot gun your head off from behind! Plus it never plays the same way twice as the Horde adapts their technique to the situation This game probably plays better overall with a second player, but I give it a solid 7 out of 10.

Co-op is fun on Gears 1 & 2...the only times the AI partner on Gears 1 pissed me off, was the final boss battle with General RAAM. RAAM got that stupid fucker every time!

Too bad Glacier is stuck with a PS3...

I never had a problem with Gears 1. I'm not a shooter fan, so the fact that this game hooked me says something.

Just finished the main game on this. I fucked Vader up big time, yo! Haven't played the second disc yet.

I got that game last week. Its fun so far but I got the old version since it was so cheap.

I only paid ten bucks more, which is cheaper than buying all the DL content that's on it.

It was 17 used. If I like it enough I'll get the PC version with everything.

ロックマン2 Dr.ワイリーの謎

I never thought it would be so difficult. Playing it, that is.

Dragon Age: Origins for the PS3

Just finished GTA: San Andreas. I never realized how much the ending mission annoyed me until now. CJ was really impressing me until he tells Sweet that he was wrong and the hood was what he should have been focusing on the whole time. Seriously, does Rockstar actually believe that shit?

Right now, I just put in Dead Space.

Finally bought Uncharted 2. I've reached Shambala and so far it's been awesome.

The only thing I find questionable so far is the ratio of shooting segments to exploration segments.

Shut up, you fag.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Shut up, you fag.

Originally Posted By: MisterJLA

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

you fag.

You guys have me mistaken for someone who plays Modern Warfare.

No, we understand that you are too fagotty for that.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

No, we understand that you are too fagotty for that.

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe

Superman RAWKS in that game...just use him.

I've had the most success so far with Batman. Captain Marvel seems useless. Any tips on Superman?

Stay away from kryptonite!

Originally Posted By: BASAMS The Plumber

I've had the most success so far with Batman. Captain Marvel seems useless. Any tips on Superman?

Use the heat vision to chip away your opponent's health from across the screen. Time it to when they get up so even if they block, you're still taking away a little bit of health.

Or the "ground punch" works too if they are downed. He also has a move where he throws up enemies in the air...from there, link to another combo or something. I can't remember...linking combos is EPIC...it's been about 6 months since I've done that one.

Deathstroke is bad ass, too.

Captain Marvel is cool if you get used to his lightning based powers.
GL is cool if you can use the various ring based powers.
Flash is damn near unbeatable.

Against people, or the AI?

I never had problems against the Flash online...the better players used Raiden.

when i play against other people. when i use flash, i have never been beaten. Once i get a combo of super speed moves, they have no way of defending. In single player i have beaten them all, several times.

got this for christmas

I've been doing the generic Wii family Christmas so its been lots of Wii Sports, Mario Kart and New Super Mario Bros Wii.

I'm now addicted to Castle Age on facebook.

I'm playing Batman Arkham Asylum
Let me say this, if you are considering buying this game - stop and just go get it. I downloaded the demo just for the hell of it thinking it wouldn't be anything special. Ya, I was way off. I figured I'd pick it up way down the road when the price drops closer to 20 or 30 bucks. Well, I got lucky and found it on sale online at the microsoft store for 31 and change, thats after tax and with free shipping. Needless to say I ordered it right away and am glad I did.

The cheap price I got it for only makes it sweeter, but if any game is worth 60 bucks, this one is it. It's just a really fun, cool game to play. The controls are easy to get the hang of but they remain exciting; the upgrades help a lot in this area. The cut scenes with batman and the joker are awesome. Graphics are cool, the whole environment is looks great. It is big enough so you can take your time getting through the game to explore and find little extras like the riddler trophies scattered throughout. I've only played about 3 hours worth, and it shows I am something like 6% of the way through. I'm sure this includes finding all the little extras in the game, but I'm sure I still have a ways to go.

Long story short, get the game if you are even considering it. It is a ton of fun to play.

Link?

i am surprised its not dropped in price on amazon.com as the uk site is doing it for half price on all systems. Then again, it also surprises me how expensive games are in the US. If i buy a dvd or cd from the US it costs me less than buying it here, a lot of the time, but games cost the same or more

Well for the demo. Steam

GIVE IT A TRY.. AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

NO NEED TO YELL!

Originally Posted By: elliot

Well for the demo. Steam

No, I want the link to who ever wrote you little mini review. Everyone here knows your kind can't form sentences. Crediting the original author is the right thing to do.

I wrote this all by little self,and i'm not like them!! I'm cool and had sex with more than one woman, and to top it off i had a threesome with two nice ladies last night,gosh i love drunk chick's. Anyway this game is awsome. oh and rex you are really a big fat imbecile!! Ha ha. Dave..

Originally Posted By: MisterJLA

NO NEED TO YELL!

Sorry caps lock didn't mean it.

I just cut out a piece of cyan and blue celophane and made my own 3D glasses for use with nVidia's built-in stereoscopic 3D. So far I've tried most of my games and found them to work, especially Left 4 Dead and Need for Speed: Most Wanted (even that gamecube emulator thingie works, Mario Kart in 3d!)

Hurts the eyes after a few minutes, though.

Did you make them all slanty or like real human eyes?

the shape of the glasses' eyeholes don't matter. I look like a snarf wearing it either way.

except I have hair.

And you weigh a lot less.

And dont look like your face has been turned inside out.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

That there is SAHOG material!

Originally Posted By: MisterJLA

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

That there is SAHOG material!

That's what I'm sayin'!

http://firstpersontetris.com/

That gave me a headache.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

I heard that was terrible, in terms of graphics, plot, and gameplay... and apparently, voice acting. Comments?

Oh. And. Playing Ao2: The 40th Day. Better than the original. Which I loved, despite the fact I beat it in a night... Only complaints, really, are the same as with the first. One: "Pimped" guns really don't boost your aggro enough to warrant the price tag. Two: The most expensive guns in the game really aren't very practical or effective; in fact, a fully-upgraded, albeit cheaper (base price, anyway) weapon typically performs better. That and the really expensive ones cannot be upgraded. Again.

Piss off!

Still playing Uncharted 2.

I want to give MAG a shot, but there are no demos.

No Demos?
I was playing the Beta up until the release. Didnt like it.

Apparently the Japanese are eating it up like a Chinese K-Mart.

That's pretty impressive considering it's an FPS. I'm curious to see what the hubbub's about.

I didnt like it cause it just seemed too confusing, with stuff going off all over the place. The whole point is sposed to be you working as a team, but unless people have their mics on, it just becomes a typical fps with people running round doing what they want, only with shitty graphics.

Another complaint I have been reading a lot of, is that unlike something like COD, a respawn takes around 30 seconds or so, and then when you finally do respawn, you get taken out by spawn campers.

Just picked up Mass Effect 2. So much win...

the first Left 4 Dead - wanna run through it before I think about picking up the new one...

Star Trek Online

Dragon Age

Tekken 6

Final Fantasy XIII (March 9th)

I bought TNA Impact at movie gallery yesterday cuz it was only $5 and i'd like at least $4.99 back.

$\:lol\:$

I've heard nothing but bad things about that one.

Midway made DC vs Mortal Kombat, which was a nice game, so I was surprised at first to hear about how bad iMpaCt!1! turned out...

i even take issue with the body scans. it looks to me like they scanned these guys sweating to try and make it look real the only problem is whomever did the coloring made it look as if they have horrendous freckle problems/dirt/mutated body hair.

i'm not a big gamer but the controls seem so basic and stiff like wrestling games on the NES not something as modern as the xbox360. as you say mortal combat vs dc was sweet but this is mountains of meh. i dont know if it was because this was developed as the budget tightened or not?

what is tragic is rockstar actually put in a better bid for the license from what i understand but tna decided midway's proposal to make a game was more to their liking. rockstar im sure would have put out something very innovative and out of the norm, while this is so blah.

Oh dont get me started on this game.
I bought it when it first came out, and sold it within days (luckily I did, as the price dropped dramatically within weeks).

Its one of the few PS3 games that I got rid of and have no intention of rebuying it now that the prices are coming down.

As you say, the control system was so basic, it was like going back 20 years to the days you had one button on a joystick.
The fact you also could not use any real wrestlers in the career mode was awful, and that you cant even win or defend championships in any other mode, made for a game that was so far below what people have become used to with the WWE games, that just like the tv show, it just comes across as a cheap and nasty knock off.

Oh, and they also were so fucking lazy, that all the independant companies you worked for in career mode, had 6 sided rings, which is obviously even more ridiculous when you consider that TNA used to love promoting the fact they were the only people in the world to use one.

Fucking awful game.
Even worse than Smackdown vs RAW 2008, and that was a huge pile of Snarf as well.

Finally got round to picking this up last week as I saw it for £7.99.

Have to say, like the first one it really was a great game.
Only disapointments for me though were that the bosses were easy, and got easier and easier as the game went on (I was playing it on hardest difficulty available, so will have to replay it on the tougher difficulty thats now unlocked, to see if this makes a difference), and that the ending cut seen was so short that it was tough to work out what had happened, and of course it meant the payoff for finishing the game was quite lame.

Fantastic Contraption

Played the demo of that.
It looks really good, but really not sure if its any good, as it just seems to be a case of 'walk around, press button when prompted'.

The way they set up the prompts during the fight scene in the whore's apartment was interesting. There was an edge to it I didn't expect. But ultimately, it felt like a sample of what feels like a series of repetitive mini-games. And I honestly don't see how they could maintain the drama and serious atmosphere with the dubbing sounding as forced as it does.

Perhaps I will rent it. But it's definitely not a game of lasting value.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Played the demo of that.
It looks really good, but really not sure if its any good, as it just seems to be a case of 'walk around, press button when prompted'.

That seems to be exactly what it is. It reminds me of The Sims only much more in depth. Also, Parys is correct in that the dubbing doesn't flow, it sounds forced so it kind of takes away from the atmosphere. All in all though it looks great and it is certainly a good game to play to take a break from MW2 and the like....at least until God of War 3.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Parys is correct

Never, ever say shit like that.
If Pariah hates something, we must all like it, and if he likes something, we must all hate it.
Thats the way its always been. This creates a huge paradox.

But I approve of calling him Parys, because that's a very gay name.

Elsia has ruined Jeffry.

Just played God of war 3 demo, now playing Darksiders demo.

They are essentially the same game.

Now, if a slap don't work, you cut 'em or you pay 'em, but you keep your receipts, cos this ain't the Mafia.

Off the VC

Just went back to Uncharted 2 to finish it on crushing level.
Quite funny that I gave up on it months ago cause I got stuck on one bit, and today I pretty much just breezed through it once I cleared that bit.

2nd platinum!

Currently playing the first Uncharted again on crushing difficulty.
I honestly believe the first game was more difficult.
Just over half way through and it certainly seems to be more challenging.

They made the second one easier because some pussies complained about there being too many enemies.

Fuckers.

Right now I'm playing the Just Cause 2 demo. Surprisingly fun. It feels like what Mercenaries 2 should have been--with a few things missing here and there.

Finished Uncharted last night for my third platinum.
Fucking tough game.
Certainly glad they got rid of some aspects though.

Played the Just Cause demo on Thurs. Didnt like it.

God of War III

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 for the PS2

I played the fuck out of MUA on the PC with all the graphics settings maxed, so MUA2 on the PS2 looks like somebody shat in a plate and painted it red, blue, and yellow. The graphics kind of threw me out of the loop at first, but once I got that out of the way, the game is as enjoyable as the first one. The character selection is 50/50, I like that Hulk is now playable, but hate the fact that Blade is still there. Who the fuck cares about Blade? What a boring piece of shit character.

I like how you are now made to choose between being pro registration or anti, but I don't know yet if it makes a lot of difference other than not being able to choose specific characters. I've only just chosen Anti-Reg, because Capt. America > Iron Man

Iron Man will always be > than Cap, you silly slitty eyed fool.

Legends of Wrestling II for the Gamecube

It is shit and its death will be rejoiced.

The only things I like about it is the roster (finally, I get to play Tito Santana in a videogame!), and the graphics, which is very nostalgic for me because the wrestlers look like 80s action figures. The gamecube has a crisper, higher resolution (which lends itself well to cel-shaded, cartoony and non-realistic art designs) than the PS2(which is blurred and pixelized, but has better texturing capabilities, which makes it ideal for lifelike rendering)

Unfortunately, the rest is crap. The FMVs are lo-res and short, probably because the GC disc has limited space, the animation is jerky and don't transition well between frames, the arena is stale, and the grappling system is stupid. I've played SNES wrestling games that were more fun. (The main bit that kills it is that the game is fast paced, with single button counters and the usual grapple+direction schtick, but the controls are extremely sluggish and you would be too concerned about getting the right timing that you'd miss whatever is going on at the screen)

Also, I noticed that failed Wrestling games tend to mess up on the pacing. They either make the game too slow or too fast (most of these even treat wrestling games like a Fighting game ala tekken).

I bought the first one when it came out on the PS2 years ago.
I took advantage of the no questions asked refund policy at Electronics Boutique, and got my money back the next day.
I told the girl behind the counter that it was shit, and she said "But its got Hulk Hogan in it!"
I said "Exactly!"

She didnt know how to reply to that.

that would make a good plot for a porno movie

She would have made a good plot for a porno movie too.

I certainly would have plotted her

If you know what I mean

and I think you do

except in the movie, the girl behind the counter will be played by snarf in a blonde wig

And I will be played by you.
Have fun!

I woke up and everything was just a dream!

And your sheets were all sticky.

I tried Wrestlemania X8 for the Gamecube this time.

It's playable, with a grappling system that seems like a cross between WWE Smackdown from the PS1 and WCW Mayhem for the N64. The graphics are so-so, the wrestlers are detailed enough for you to recognize who is who, but the overall quality is still subpar, and the angles kind of make the wrestlers look squished (similar to the camera angles in WWF Warzone/Attitude).

It's good enough for a few minutes, but you're bound to get sick of it afterwards-the animations are jerky and unnatural, with the wrestlers looking like they're on roller skates when walking. And every match seems stupid; all you're going to do is powermove after one powermove, since running attacks look lame and are not very effective, ditto for submissions.

I've pretty much given up on the gamecube when it comes to wrasslin games. It seems Here comes the pain and SD vs RAW 2006 on the PS2 is the best I can get for that generation of virtual wrasslin'.

What about Day of Reckoning?

Day of Reckoning is okay, the grappling system reminds me of WWF No Mercy for the N64. The graphic engine is better than the other wrasslin games on the cube, but the animation still doesn't look as fluid as the ones on the PS2 WWE games.

Day of Reckoning 2, I don't know because the emulator I use doesn't support it, and crashes as soon as you leave the menu.

Metroid Prime.

I had misgivings at first, because I suck at FPS when using a gamepad instead of a mouse/keyboard combo, but Metroid Prime was surprisingly easy and intuitive.

The auto aiming does not ruin anything as far as autonomy and illusions are concerned, because I'm supposed to be wearing an extremely advanced armor, there's gotta be an auto aiming feature in there. Also, like Simone Simons of Epica, I am a hot chick underneath all of that metal.

The best Nintendo game I've played.

I hate first person shooters, I mean, Wolfenstein 3D gave me headaches. So many ways to go! But Metroid Prime was pretty cool.

I'm the same way. Metroid Prime and Portal are the only two first person games I've loved.

Is that even legal?

More importantly how does your drawer feel?

Ready to be broken and thrown into a nice cozy fireplace, that's how! Please burn me to a crisp!

You usually do not find that kind of politeness in a large piece of furniture.

New Super Mario Brothers Wii (not a real word). So awesome. I don't have a Wiimote but the control scheme uses the wii mote sideways, much like a gamepad, so I was able to map the buttons to a standard PC gamepad and everything was alright. The Wiimote shaking action, I had to map to a button.

Bleach Versus Crusade. This one supports the Gamecube controller so my trusty gamepad was enough. Game had awesome graphics, and a control scheme that wasn't stupid. Unfortunately, the fighting engine was lacking. Blocking is done automatically and rarely happens when you need it, and parrying has a very low success rate. The fights themselves are akin to my first sexual experience; too fast to be enjoyable and extremely messy. There's way too many things going on at once and you tend to get lost in all of the activity (and I hate the partner system. Why does every fighting game nowadays need a tag system?)

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

whaaaaat

What Wii emulator do you use? Would it work in my crappy laptop? My specs are: it's a crappy laptop.

Dolphin. It's a GC and Wii emulator (the wii support is better than its gamecube support, but you need a real wii mote because using the mouse sucks).

I don't know if it will work on your laptop, dad. Your laptop is shit. And its death will be rejoiced.

But I've seen youtube videos of laptops playing games on it with playable enough speeds. It doesn't require a beefy graphics card, and a DX9 one will do.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I don't know if it will work on your laptop, dad. Your laptop is shit. And its death will be rejoiced.

Whu? So you need the sensor too?

it uses bluetooth.

I think my laptop has no teeth, blue or otherwise.

I don't really know though, because I'm not a fancy millionaire like you.

I sold the Chilean earthquake codes to the CIA for a lot of cash.

I don't know what they did with those, though.

ドンキーコング,64

Modnation Racing demo. Fun game, horrible loading times. They've promised a fix after the release of the game. PC gaming has finally arrived to consoles.

Borderlands
Red Faction: Guerrilla
The "Hitman" series (Just 'cause I can...)

You can also go shoot yourself (again).

And you can always play "Hide and Go Fuck Yourself" agai--- wait. 's right. Still a virgin. Sorry rex.

That makes absolutely no sense at all.

I win again!

Originally Posted By: PCG342

And you can always play "Hide and Go Fuck Yourself" agai--- wait. 's right. Still a virgin. Sorry rex.

Are you apologizing to rex for you still being a virgin? Afraid you won't perform up to his standards?

Just a bit of advice, don't try the funny retorts bit. You're not good at it.

I think he may even be pointing out that he is actually a hermaphrodite himself.
I mean, if he thinks that fucking yourself rids you of virginity, that would explain a lot.

Playing Red Dead Redemption.

Gameplay's good so far, but Rockstar just doesn't know how to stay away from the politics. I mean, I knew there'd be some mention of how evil the white man is and how the Christians are all bigoted proselytizers or some shit, but I didn't expect such a flagrant WASP parody right at the opening.

fuck you

$\:\($

Metal Slug for the PS2.

Not the neogeo ports, but the 3D third person shooter. Had trouble with the controls at first, but once I have found out where the lock-on-target button is (the ISO i downloaded did not include a manual), I started having fun. The graphics look cool, with the super deformed anatomy retained but in 3D. Still don't know how to ride the tank.

Tank rider!

I recently downloaded a gigatorrent of NES and SNES Roms, because I've been planning to buy a netbook and the only emulation I can do on it is N64 and older, so I've been going crazy with the following games:

G.I. Joe (NES) - this thing is way ahead of its time, with amazing (for its generation) graphics, multiple character choices that actually make a difference (different characters have different speeds, height of jumps, damage, and the designs are not just pallete changes). Boss battles and game stages are also varied and challenging

Lunar Ball (NES) - it's pool. Fun.

Othello (NES) - the CPU player is fuckin cheap. I swear it's cheating.

Yeah, NES games mostly. Fun, and easy to pick up. And it only takes a couple of seconds before I get to the actual playing part. One of the things I hate with newer games is the endless barrage of developer logo screens, very few of which are skippable.

Played the Split/Second demo. It should have been called "Michael Bay presents Gran Turismo".

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Fun, and easy to pick up. And it only takes a couple of seconds before I get to the actual playing part.

I wish I could meet a girl like this.
-Snarf

finally picked up Modern Warfare 2 on 360.

I wanna shoot MrJLA

in the ass

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Having finally played the game I have to say, you do fucking realise that that is how it was back then?
The fact that you have to complain like a little Snarf about something like this, when the game is fucking great, shows what a nitpicky little poof you are.

My favourite interaction so far in the game:
Irish:"Whats the Spanish word for cunt?"
John:"I dunno, but I'm sure you've been called it a few times."

Torchlight. I've been playing nonstop for 6 hours now. This thing is like crack.

...ass crack

IN THE ASS

Wii Sports.

I bought a wiimote and a nunchuck just for this game and have been having a blast with Tennis and Boxing. Wife claims I don't have to look like an idiot while playing, because she can play the game while sitting, just by flicking her wrist. But where is the fun in that?

was she talking about the wii or looking at porn?

now that you mention it...

I just checked. She's talking about my wii.

(I'm making a joke about penis)

But its not even a real word (or penis).

Been downloading and playing tons of Wii games and noticed that majority of the games that I had liked (Wii Sports, the tennis games, Oneechanbara Bikini Zombie Slayers) were basically tech demo for the wii's controller. If it weren't for the remote - if these games were played using a normal gamepad - they would be too shallow and short to be worthwhile. They were the type of games that took a backseat to the wiimote.

The ones that actually have a complete game (Bleach games, WWE sVSr 2010, Dragonball Z BT3) behind the control scheme were tedious and needlessly complex, and would play better when using a gamepad (in fact, these games support the classic control or the GC pad). These games also tend to be ports from other systems.

The only exception I found so far is New Super Mario brothers and Mario Kart Wii, which seems like complete games even though they were obviously built around the controller.

Wario Ware is pretty awesome.

Your Wario obsession is tearing these boards apart

Borderlands DLC's.
Marvel: UA/UA2 with the girlfriend.
Deus Ex, tried getting into Invisible War... Can't stand it... Project Snowblind, in hindsight, had some decent moments. If you can get it running properly.

Fuck off!

Frontierville on facebook. Its Brian Reynolds new game. Its a lot of fun so far.

Dead Rising, House of the Dead Overkill.

Finally bought myself a sensor bar so I can do that pointing thing with the Wii. Had more fun with House of the Dead. Dead Rising, not so much. Maybe it's because there's none of that camera shit in the Wii version, so it's kind of just a straightforward zombie shooting game.

Back to Fire Pro Wrestling Returns on the PS2.

I was rusty as all FUCK for the first few matches, but then I RAWKED like I did back in the day.

Just a fun game.

I never even got to downloading created wrestlers and rings yet!

Whoa!

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Did you ever check out "Dead Space" for the Wii? loved the original game and wasted about an hour on the Wii shooter, and I thought it was pretty good.

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Did you ever check out "Dead Space" for the Wii? loved the original game and wasted about an hour on the Wii shooter, and I thought it was pretty good.

am downloading a 4.5 gig ISO as I type this, so I'll get to try it by friday. If this is not good I am going to make your fake death real.

I thought Dead Space was shit.

No, it's a video game.

No, that was the big problem. They forgot to make the game and just sent out a big turd instead. Stupid bastards.

I got to try Dead Space Extraction. It is shit. Graphics were amazing and I guess the story is top notch, but I've played so many damn zombies/mutant shooting games that I don't really care about the story anymore. I just want a fun rail-shooter, and Dead Space is shit as a rail shooter. I'm already on the 3rd chapter and I still don't have access to an effective gun.

A pistol and a Rivet gun, both of which can't kill the mutants instantly even if I shoot them square in the head or in the crotch, or in their other head. It sucks because insta-kills are one of the pleasures of shooters. The cutscenes are also lengthy, and I think each chapter is about 20% game and 80% cutscene.

It's what I get for trusting PCG's recommendations.

told you it was shit

I thought you were talking about PCG

PCGay = Fake internet Dead Space

Iron Man 2. It is shit.

I just pirated the ISO but I still felt ripped off.

I played a demo of the first one, and that was shit, so havent bothered with either of them.

It just seems traditional to produce movie tie ins related to Comic movies in recent years.
The only ones that I can think of that were any good were the Wolverine one on the PS3, and Punisher and Batman Begins on the PS2.

I think the first Spidey one wasnt bad, but the second one was just a rehash of the first, and the third one on the PS3 was awful.

Fantastic Four 2 on the PS3 was pretty bad, and I only bought it cause it was £5 (nevere even bothered completing it).

Never even bothered with The Hulk ones as they looked poor as well.

Not sure if there were any decent X-Men ones.

Ghost Rider looked poor (I may have even owned it on the PS2, but I forget, so if I did, that says how shit it must have been).

Oh, and I played a trial of The Watchmen one as well ... it was cack.

The X-Men game (I think it was III, the one based on the third movie) was almost decent. Graphics were good, and the combat was actually enjoyable but the game itself was too restrictive. It was trying too hard to make you follow the story that it turned into a series of minigames: One moment you're wolverine fighting thugs and a few seconds later you're fighting Sabertooth and trying to get him to fall off a scaffolding, and then a few seconds later you're ice man trying to pilot your stupid ice slide towards rings in the sky. It would have been infinitely more playable if they just made it a straightforward beat-em-up.

The HULK game based on the Ang Lee movie was enjoyable, the cel-shaded graphics has aged well, and the combat was addictive, except for the stealth stages, which were insanely difficult to the point of being broken. Good thing there was a survival mode where you just beat up wave after wave of bad guys (only, it gets boring after a while because all the stages are indoors/underground, and there are only 3 kinds of enemies).

The HULK game based on the Edward Norton film on the other hand is shit. Shit
graphics, shit gameplay. Only thing good about it is the sandbox-y world, so that I don't have to bother with the story mode if I just want to run around New York breaking stuff.

Hulk stealth mode?

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Iron Man 2. It is shit.

I worked for sega for a bit testing that game. It indeed was shit. It's death will be rejoiced.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Hulk stealth mode?

Yeah. It's stupid. I wanted a Hulk Smashes Stuff game, not a Banner Hides From Soldiers minigame.

I remember the Hulk game I used to play years ago on the Mega Drive (I think it was). That was brilliant.

I also played that game, and the SNES version. At least in those games, Banner had access to a gun and can fight.

I blame Rob, the gay facist cunt!

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Iron Man 2. It is shit.

I worked for sega for a bit testing that game. It indeed was shit. It's death will be rejoiced.

I bet you told them that the game was shit and that it shouldn't be released, but they ignored you cuz you're black.

I'm starting to hate the FPS/rail shooters on the Wii, the more that I play them. I love the old zapper games on the NES and the rail shooters on the arcades, but the wiimote, even with the gun attachment, feels nothing like it. You don't really use the wimmote to aim at targets - you use the wimmote to move a cursor that you will use to aim at targets. Big difference. This means markmanship skills are worth jackshit, even if you're a few inches off your target, as long as you manage to move the crosshairs fast enough, you'll hit the target.

It's like using a mouse that requires more effort to move. This is the first time I experienced what it's like to perspire, I was scared at first and thought that my soul is leaking out of my body.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Iron Man 2. It is shit.

I worked for sega for a bit testing that game. It indeed was shit. It's death will be rejoiced.

I bet you told them that the game was shit and that it shouldn't be released, but they ignored you cuz you're black.

I bet they just offered him some extra chicken and rice, and he said it was great.

knut is half spanish!

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Iron Man 2. It is shit.

I worked for sega for a bit testing that game. It indeed was shit. It's death will be rejoiced.

I bet you told them that the game was shit and that it shouldn't be released, but they ignored you cuz you're black.

they didnt listen to any of us. gob i hated that fucking job

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

I bet they just offered him some extra chicken and rice, and he said it was great.

chicken and watermelon you ginger cunt. get your hate right.

since when do you have watermelon with chicken?
niggers here like chicken and rice or rice and peas.
Our niggers must be more cultured or something!

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

since when do you have watermelon with chicken?

about the same time we started having chicken and waffles. We like strange combinations.

K-nut is clearly a hybrid of Black and Asian men, which explains why he needs both chicken and rice to sustain his existence.

I think he is a hybrid between a black man and a Snarf!

How do you create an hybrid of Snarf with anything? I don't think cloning technology is that advanced.

Got an new computer so now I'm playing around with all my old games at max settings.

Where did you steal that shit, you motherfucker

Your butt.

give it back

Originally Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk

How do you create an hybrid of Snarf with anything? I don't think cloning technology is that advanced.

I think gene splicing works only with black people and Snarf as they are so low on the genetics scale.
You couldnt, for instance, splice either of their genentic material with an amoeba, because the amoeba is far too genetically advanced.

Picked up a few on the cheap today:

I was planning on replaying Final Fantasy X, but gave up after 15 minutes of hearing the crappy voice acting. I'm starting to wonder how I managed to finish this thing when I first played it. I remember my testicles retracting when I first got to the Yuna/Tidus laughing scene. I'm afraid that if I manage to watch that scene again, my balls and my penis will come to life and watch Twilight: Eclipse on their own.

Dammit, Rob got to him!

I finally pirated Batman: Arkham Asylum even though I am not sure if my paltry videocard can handle it. But surprise, surprise, it ran fullspeed on mid settings, and the graphics are amazing even at the lowest settings. It's a better optimized port than X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which didn't have a lot of options for changing detail settings outside of low/high detail toggle and resolutions).

Plants VS Zombies just got "game of the year"ed. Now it has twenty new achievements and you can make your own zombie. No new levels though.

Kane and Lynch: Dog Days.
Awesome.

Dragon Age Origins.

The story is a Lord of the Rings rip-off and I hate the very low Level cap (25), which prevents me from having one man army characters, since even at the max level, I can still die from normal mobs/enemies. But the game is enjoyable enough. I used the dev console cheat to breeze through the game. Got my approval ratings for the companion to 100 and shagged the slutty mage, broke up with her afterwards and shagged the goody two shoes rogue, broke up with her afterwards and shagged the elf assassin, and then broke up with him too. I'm currently trying to court the party's pet Dog but it seems the game doesn't allow you to shag it.

There's an ultimate version of that coming out with all the dlc for 60 bucks. I'm gonna wait until then to try it out.

One of the party members, Alistair, is gonna remind you of Snarf. Except with hair.

I just got a nintendo DS

I'm disappointed graphics wise. It won't hold a candle to my deceased PSP, with their 3d stuff only being on par with the Sega Saturn or the PS1, but the art styles more than makes up for it (as well as the small screen). There's just some 3D games that are ugly and look like you're controlling something that was drawn by a bored 3 year old kid (Force unleashed looks like crap).

The screen is unwieldy, as I'm not used to the stylus. Using my fingers on the other hand, reminds me of that Always Sunny in Philly episode with Frank breaking Dennis' touchscreen phone with his greasy fingers.

Currently Playing Nintendogs. I named the dog "Ass" and trained him to sit when I say "Gay"

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Get an R4 revolution card and you will enjoy the Ds even more.

Originally Posted By: Black Machismo

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Get an R4 revolution card and you will enjoy the Ds even more.

I'm sure you and Wankie have a great time with the R4 in you Ds relationship.

Originally Posted By: iggy

Originally Posted By: Black Machismo

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Get an R4 revolution card and you will enjoy the Ds even more.

I'm sure you and Wankie have a great time with the R4 in you Ds relationship.

yeah because that insult made so much sense drunky.

I have an iEdge card and a 4gb SDHC. I'm sailing the seas of piracy.

Just tried Kingdom Hearts 358-2 days. It could almost be mistaken for a PS2 game.

Nintendo updated the DSi to block most of those cards, I don't know if that affects the DS. There should be a way to get around it soon enough.

And the makers of the cards upgraded their firmware to support the DSi/XL.

The card I'm using, iEdge, supports DSi. The older one called simply Edge doesn't.

which do you have dsi or Ds?

Your mom.

-Rex

Originally Posted By: Black Machismo

which do you have dsi or Ds?

Please stop asking people about their STD's. Nobody will ever have the same ones as you.

The family resemblance is striking.

I think this proves that he they are French Canadian.

Yes, he they sure is are. Sucks to be him them huh?

Been working my way through these the last few months (some new purchases, some I wanted to replay):

Got this arriving tomorrow:

Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction for the Gamecube.

I wonder why the SEGA Incredible Hulk port on the PC got panned so hard while this game is universally lauded. It's almost the same sandbox-type game, only differing in the story and the graphics.

you are a sand nigger

That's racist dude. I'm not a nigger. I'm a spic.

I got into the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta.

Its awesome. The game is basically complete and I don't have to pay for it.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I didn't know my PC could run this game reasonably well at the highest settings (everything maxed, 1280x1024 res). Still not fullspeed, I'm getting around 40-60+ fps according to fraps, which is playable enough considering that I'm perfectly happy with the Wii's 30 fps.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I'm perfectly happy with the Wii's 30 fps.

Dont we have enough masturbatory information on these boards, what with socks etc.

So how is Web of Shadows?

I bought that a year ago, and still haven't gotten around to it yet...

I found Web of Shadows enjoyable enough, but the PC Version is so buggy and poorly ported that I stopped halfway through and uninstalled the game.

If you're playing the console version, I don't know if it's buggy as well. I'd recommend it if it doesn't have the same gamebreaking bugs as the PC (inconsistent speed, voices and animations that glitch out, enemies that get stuck in the air instead of dying, etc)

Web Of Shadows uses the same basic sandbox format of the movie based games, but is a lot better in its execution than the god awful Spidey 3 game.

I really enjoyed it.
Being able to switch between the traditional Spidey suit and the symbiote suit gives you different power sets and also affects how the public react to you. (red suit equals positive reaction, black suit equals negative).

Controls can get a but fiddly climbing buildings, but its a small problem in the scheme of things.

people in general hate blacks $\:lol\:$ $\:lol\:$ $\:lol\:$

the realism is uncanny

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

That's good to see.

I put over 100 hours into Spider-Man 2...then that POS of Spider-Man 3 was released, and I fought with that for maybe 10 minutes. That one had the shittest camera EVAR...

I just dont understand how they fucked up Spidey 3 so badly. It was basically the same game as the first two, but it just sucked so bad.

Theres also plenty of cameos through out Web of shadows, ranging from Wolverine to Luke Cage to Moon Knight etc, and when you build up a certain energy bar, you can call on one of them to help clear out an area etc.
If you make the dark decisions when battling a boss, you will only be able to call on villains like The Vulture to help you out.

they've done this similar to the Wolverine Origins franchise, haven't they? With the PS2 and handheld ports being crappy sidescrollers?

I've been playing the fuck out of pixeljunk monsters lately. Its gotten to the point where I'm having dreams about it.

If you know what he means....

Picked up a couple more:

Dragon Age, Mass effect 2, and fable 2....replaying them...

Got %100 on New Mario Wii, not quite sure what to do with my life now.

Stop playing with Mario's Wii, for one thing.

Sorry, I've looked up "wii" in my translation software and it isn't a word.

it's a way of life.

Unless of course you fail to count the inventory of them.

Anyone of you FUCKERS going to try the Lucha Libre game?

From the little that I've read from people who played it at gamefaqs, you'll either hate it, or think it's average.

http://www.gamerankings.com/xbox360/995068-lucha-libre-aaa-heroes-del-ring/index.html

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/995068-lucha-libre-aaa-heroes-del-ring

Just finished the single player mode on Bad company 2, and it left me a bit disappointed considering how much I loved the first one.
It seems that they have taken an tip from the makers of Modern Warfare and spent all their time concentrating on the online aspect, and given us a single player game that is way too short, with the levels being nowhere near as expansive as the first game, with a lot more of a linear route from A to B.
Also, even on the hardest difficulty level, its pretty damn easy.

Factor in that the humour is not as evident and that there is no explanation of why they dont have the gold they 'stole' in the first game, and the teaser of The Legionnaire surviving isnt followed up on, and it leaves you somewhat underwhelmed.

All that said though, but it is still a fun game, and the online is great. I just wish they had kept the meat on the bones that was in the first game.

It's easier to get a grip of Demigod compared to DoTA, and the slower gameplay gives you a chance to appreciate how beautiful the graphics look compared to the outdated Warcraft III engine. Could have used more maps and characters, though.

Gorgeous graphics, and fairly low system requirements. It's from Square-Enix so I assume the story is top notch. Unfortunately, it's extremely unoptimized. The game runs fullspeed on my rig even at the highest quality settings, but the loading times are horrible, even though I am on win7 64 bit, with 4gb of dual channel DDR2-800 ram.

It's not an exaggeration that I have to wait at least 3 minutes to load a goddamn in-game cutscene. I uninstalled it after an hour of playing.

Defender Stargate

This game is boss!

l4d2. I loved the sacrifice dlc; the 'no mercy' campaign plays way differently with l4d2 weapons and specials.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Deathspank

An addictive and semi-challenging Action RPG (you don't need to grind, you'll level up normally while doing the quests, but you have the option of grinding early on and hunting the stronger enemies that you will face later in the game). Almost all of the quests/puzzles are fairly easy to solve even though they're not linear (e.g. you'll take quest A B and C at the same time but you'll only get the solution for quest A once you finish quest C).

Also, the script is hilarious. It pokes fun at other RPGs. It's got the same brand of humor as Secret of Monkey Island and Psychonauts.

Yeah, it's from the Monkey Island guy. Been wanting to play that one.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Enjoying the never-ending enemy spawns?

Originally Posted By: MisterJLA

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Enjoying the never-ending enemy spawns?

Yes!

Donkey Kong Country Returns.

meh

The cutscenes are too Dreamworks, but the game itself is awesome.

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The GC version. My PC can't emulate the Wii version at fullspeed.

...I just found out that all the Links in the games are not necessarily the same person. Kind of like James Bond.

Iron Man for the PC. Because ZZap's mom is a videogame.

I'm not going to help you in your debate against basams and G-man, JLA. You're a big man now, you can fight your own battles.

besides, I'm scared of them.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I'm not going to help you in your debate against basams and G-man, JLA. You're a big man now, you can fight your own battles.

I'm doing great on my own...but if you REALLY want to help me...I can think of something else.

Enuincating.

I didn't spell it right.

There's irony in that, somewhere.

Now I am also scared of you. How do you know such things...about my past?

That shirt really looks nice on you today.

I never thought I would see JLA crying over losing a debate in the Game forum. Let it go man, it's not personal. I win at debates all the time.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Most are supposed to be prequels. The SNES one is a prequel of the two NES ones, and the N64 one was supposed to be a prequel of those three. Then the first Gamecube one was clearly set a long time in the future with another Link, and it's probably something similar with the second GC/first Wii one.

I used to not like Zelda after being burned by Majora's Mask. But now I'm totally liking this gay elf dude. I just downloaded Wind Waker while I'm currently cooling down from getting stuck on the Goron mines. Only Zeldas I've finished so far is Ocarina and Link to the past.

hah, wtf

Little Big Planet 2 and Starcraft 2 both came out with a demo today. I'll be playing both.

games that have "champion" and "commander" in their titles is bad news if you have a sarcastic wife. Like, "Can the Supreme Commander throw out the trash already?" or if you're already out of breath while jogging with her, she's all "way to go, sports champion".

Especially if the video game is your mom, because your mom is a video game.

Forgive me.

I hate it when you bring up my past.

OUR past.

It's over between us. I've already found someone else.

Originally Posted By: PCG342

"GUN"

SOCOM: Confrontation with some of the people from the office lately.

Gay brothels are called offices now? When did that happen?

it's a euphemism for orifice

rex was just being sarcastic, SOM. He's well versed and up to date on gay brothel slang.

I'm finally playing Mass Effect for PC so I can be prepared for its sequel's release on PS3. I wanted to wait for the first one to come out on PS3 before buying the franchise, but it's taking too long.

This shit is hard yo. You kids have it easy these days. Am I a rapper or a grandpa? Nobody knows.

I miss the sequel to that Maniac Mansion- Day of the tentacle. Now that game was entertaining. Very well rounded and constructed game for back in the day

I wondered if there was any connection when I saw the tentacles in Maniac Mansion. Now I'll have to play that too.

You'd like it. Same basic point and click gameplay as MM and Monkey Island except better graphics. Great humor throughout the game too tho some of the solutions to everything seem a little unconventional

plus the original Maniac Mansion is included as a little minigame on a computer within DOTT

plus Rob is gay

Mass Effect 2.

I was a bit disappointed with them removing a lot of the role playing aspects of the system. Still a good game that eliminated a lot of the tiring, repetitive stuff from the first. It just seems less interesting now without that stuff.

True, but I'm already addicted to the universe, so I can't really let go.

I suppose it's always been the abundance of lore that's attracted me to most RPG games. Even if the game has lost the leveling elements characteristic of RPGs, the character is still immersed in a rich story-telling venue, albeit a more shooter-centric one.

Although I will say that the dialogue trees seemed to have taken a beating--Ouch.

NBA Jam on the iPhone.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Yes, another disappointment. But you are right in the fact that the Mass Effect universe is pretty well defined. That's really its saving grace in this incarnation as well as the Paragon/Bag Guy choices you can make in cut scenes. I was sad to see that the game was shorter as it seems they're putting a lot into the DL content. It kind of seems like you're not buying a full game but still paying the full game price. I'm just happy that I was patient enough to wait to grab it for $20.

I recently discovered I can play Mario Kart online on my, erm, "customized" Wii (I always assumed I'd get bricked). Is anyone still using that?

Smash Bros too, though it looks like not many people get on there anymore.

yeah, nintendo was not as tight as MS and Sony when it comes to online play. The Nintendo DS can also go online using only roms on a flash cart.

The online feature in Mario Kart works pretty well actually, and there's always a lot of people there. I only wish I could chat between races so I could say nasty things at them.

Currently trying out Dragonball Kai: Ultimate Boutouden on the DS. In this game, you can perform special attacks by shouting the move names at the nintendo DS microphone.

This is the kind of technology that should have been implemented on the arcades, in street fighter cabinets. It would have been fun to see Street Fighter tournaments devolve into shouting matches.

just started Mass Effect 2 for like the 5th time. I freaking love that game

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

You mean they didn't already?

Dungeon Overlord on facebook. Name explains it all. I'm enjoying it so far.

Just downloaded Resident Evil 2 on PSN. Noice!

Kinda sucks though That it doesn't have the features from the N64 port, which was the system I first played it on. Interestingly enough, it had more survival modes and level settings.

im playing that using a fat juicy red drippy joystick and forgot to turn on the tv

got my hands on a working bootleg of fallout 3 GotY edition. holy fuck is it addictive. I'm amazed I've gotten as much accomplished this week as I have. next week is spring break for the districts I sub in so I'm already considering it allocated to being an irritating little completist.

You should be able to finish it by Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest.

lulz

Mortal Kombat
LA Noire

I also got a copy of Fallout 3 GOTY edition, but I uninstalled it after the part where my character left the vault. I like how the game looks, and the story intrigued me, but the clunky combat turned me off.

I know that I need to level up some skills before my character becomes effective with weapons, but the scripting and hit detection really feels awkward, and third person view makes you move like a ghost skating on ice.

Also, I killed the overseer CUZ HE'S BLACK!

Resistance 3.

Holy shit. I actually wasn't expecting much from this game since it didn't involve Ted Price. But this is fuckin' awesome.

I was wary of buying another FPS, but this was a good deal.

Yeah, I'm gonna be picking that one up today.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Yeah.

Rob Administrator cobra kai
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Rob just loves reading my posts!

Just finished LA Noire. Impressed by some aspects of it, not so much others. I finished it in little over a week, and that's with me being out of town for a three day weekend. I didn't do everything, I admit. I really didn't feel like spending hours looking for cars to ride around in just for achievement points or finding old landmarks. Even so, there should be more gameplay there.

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

I can feel it coming over me
I feel it all around me
I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life it’s my destiny
There’s a fire deep inside of me
it’s waiting to come out now
no matter what, no matter how, I know I’ll make it through somehow

cuz when the road feels too long
I’ll still be holding on
I’m gonna keep on going, I know I’ll be strong

Indestructible
I wont let nobody break me down
Indestructible
nothings gonna stop me now
Indestructible
gonna gonna make you gonna keep on going
Indestructible
the last man standing

I’m ready for whatever
I’m never giving up
nothing can break my spirit
cuz it’s indestructible

can’t explain it, it’s incredible
the strength I feel inside me
nothing is impossible
I know I’ll find my way
through a storm through the darkest night
whatever comes it’s alright
Not gonna turn around I’m ready, for the future now

and when the road feels too long
I’ll still be holding on
I’m gonna keep on going, I know I’ll be strong

nothing is impossible
if you really want it
and I really want it
not gonna stop, no matter what, no
yeah this time, nothing can hold me back, no
nothing can break me down, my spirit’s indestructible.

Resistance 3

I had also downloaded Beyond Good & Evil HD. This game was so much fun on the PS2 that it was a must for me to get again.

Originally Posted By: MisterJLA

Originally Posted By: Glacier16

Super Scribblenauts. Very addictive. I'm surprised at how good it is at recognizing things. I didn't expect that it will understand how to create the words black hole, virus, god, pneumatic drill, and beautiful titan. I can picture a similar system being used for a Green Lantern game that allows you to create almost anything you can imagine (just an RPG, of course. It wouldn't work in an action game or any genre that requires instantaneous creation of things).

I'm playing a Japanese RPG called Xenoblade Chronicles basically because I got antsy waiting for the new Zelda, but it's actually pretty good, in that you don't have to stop and go to a stupid screen to throw powers at the enemies, you can just go and punch them.

The world is also pretty huge, but if I stray from the path they told me to follow I may run into the giant and he'll kill me with a single punch. I'm afraid of the giant.

Originally Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk

I'm afraid of the giant penis.

I probably shouldn't have, but I shelled out the bucks for Dark Souls.

I liked Demon's Souls, but this strikes me as a clone, so I'm a l'il iffy on it.

We'll see if it's worth it.

Keep doing that, and that child will grow up as useless as rex.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Awesome. That child is going to be a genius.

You know her training won't be complete until you hand her to Piccolo.

Been playing some Payday: The Heist and Rock Band.

Finished the main story and a couple side missions on Batman Arkham City. I will probably go back later to finish up a few more side stuff and play as Robin/Nightwing/Catwoman/Sinestro Corp Batman.

I picked up Uncharted 3 today.

Giving Castleville on facebook a try. A lot more complicated than other facebook games I've played and I'm enjoying it to far.

Snagged the Bulletstorm Limited Edition for $10, and the Online Pass was still valid. Also: Saints Row: The Third.

I just finished a day long Mega Man marathon. Good side scrolling fun.

What's a black person doing outside of his cage?

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. It is fucking awesome.

Star Tropics. I mean, you fight creatures with a magic yoyo! What's not bad ass about that?

Gobdamn! You did go old school.

hell yes. I'm tired of spending $60 on new games that are released with dlc on-disc, $60 a year for xbl, multiplayer games full of 12 year olds on mic and game modders, and red rings of death. I don't have the money to buy a ps3 or a Wii, and if I did I don't have the cash to blow on games that might suck or have the same issues that I have with Xbox games. So I spent $15, replaced my old 72 pin connector on my nes, bought a super nes, and am digging through an endless library of epic games me and my friends have collected since childhood.

I pretty much did the same thing in the original Nintendo days. Couldn't afford a new console, so I'd ride my bike to the pawn shops and by old Atari 2600 games for about a buck each.

I miss my Atari. My ex bought me one, and I gave it back to say "fuck you". My biggest regret ever.

I hooked up my Sega Saturn too. Its still shit.

I actually think mine is still buried somewhere at my mom's house. It'd take Indiana Fucking Jones to find it in all that shit she has in the storage room, though.

$\:lol\:$ you should have seen me digging through my parents basement. There actually was snakes & rats. Fuckers chewed through some comics too. Fuckers.

This game is a lot easier than I remember, or maybe it just looks easy compared to the non-X Megamen, but it's still awesome. I'd forgotten that you can get the Ha-Do-Ken here. What the fuck is that? That's insane.

Also, I didn't get a Wii until last year, but it was one of the best investments I've ever made, because all you need is an SD card and you can turn it into a classic game emulator. I have a flash drive with every SNES game ever made, a bunch of NES ones and even some MAMEs. The classic controller is awesome too.

fucking pirate!

Still better than being a snarf pirate.

my wife and I reorganized the entertainment cabinet to accommodate her n64 and ps2 in addition to her parents' nintendo not-a-real-word. I think a lot of people are going back to the consoles and games they enjoyed a console generation or two ago because they're getting increasingly frustrated with the bullshit developers are putting them through. the industry keeps moving away from the up-front single-purchase sales model we've always enjoyed and toward a subscription-based model that wrings every last bit of profitability out of games at the slight cost of originality, innovation, and the buyer getting their money's worth. cracked had a few good articles about why console gaming is going down the shitter, and sadly even PC gaming (at least of the single-player variety) seems to be in trouble, as valve and bethesda seem to be two of the only decent developers remaining who aren't completely intent on fucking gamers over.

I can see publishers going download-only in 15 years while keeping the same pricing scheme and charging an annual subscription for online multiplayer and dlc access.

The problem with the console games are that it takes millions of dollars these days to publish even a bad game. The DLC is a way for them to make more money even if the games don't sell that well. I still feel like I'm getting ripped off if I buy a $60 or $70 game only to find out that most of the cool stuff is going to cost me more money. Especially with extra level on short games. That's why I generally wait until they're in the $20 to $30 range or just borrow from friends.

the old republic is amazing. that is all

yes

rex

I'm sorry, I meant "owner of a lonely heart".

Mxy

Arkham City is rocking like a mother fucker! Too bad the bitch I work with spoilerded the ending. :-(

Kick her in the nuts!

Age of Empires Online has a free (for this week only) skirmish expansion pack. I've been playing the fuck out of it.

I'm also trying to work my way through Bioshock but I suck at first person games.

Bioshock is great! Awesome twist at the end too.

I think I've been spoiled on just about everything but I'm really into the atmosphere of the game.

Star Trek Online went free to play so I'm gonna give that a try.

does it have jedi as a playable class?

No, but you can unlock wookies after two hours of game play.

Twisted Metal demo.

Arkham City.

This writing fucking sucks.

Alfred: Sorry, I can't let you do that. Batman must save thousands and I'm a fucking douchebag.

What the holy motherfuck is this shit! Since when does Alfred countermand Batman's prerogative or assign him obligations as a vigilante? Fucking retarded!

And they're still using their civilian names over comms.

Sucks.

Seriously! Since when does Batman answer to his fucking butler!?

I mean, what the fuck!?

The game's already been proven to be awesome, Pariah. No need to keep trying to convince people to buy it.

he didn't get the memo

He never gets the memo.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

The game's already been proven to be awesome, Pariah. No need to keep trying to convince people to buy it.

So you just loved the dialogue right?

Those who can, do.

Those who can't, teach.

Those who can't teach, critique,

Those who can't critique become whiny little cunts who disapprove of everything on an internet forum.

Originally Posted By: iggy

I, personally, found the dialogue and writing to be excellent.

Why do you say that Iggy?

Originally Posted By: Pariah

My butt hurts!

$\:lol\:$

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

The game's already been proven to be awesome, Pariah. No need to keep trying to convince people to buy it.

So you just loved the dialogue right?

Yes. I thought it was a well scripted game. I can't remember having any problems with the dialogue while I was playing and enjoying the game. But I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that your Batman slash fic has better dialogue.

$\:lol\:$

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Originally Posted By: Arkham City

Batman: I must save Talia!

Alfred: I can't let you do that Bruce!

Batman: Alfred! Open the pod bay doors!

Alfred: No Bruce. Batman must save thousands. You'll thank me later.

Oracle: Bruce. It's for your own good!

Batman: Oh all right, you twisted my arm.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

This is what happens when you make a token effort to disagree with me. You make a fool out of yourself...More than usual.

Originally Posted By: iggy

Originally Posted By: Pariah

My butt hurts!

$\:lol\:$

$\:lol\:$ $\:lol\:$

Originally Posted By: Pariah

This is what happens when you make a token effort to disagree with me. You make a fool out of yourself...More than usual.

I'm just glad the rest of us don't have to live in the reality that you've fabricated for yourself.

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I'm sure he'd have done his damnedest to have us all shot by now.

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer demo. Its very much like Horde but not as fun. When I heard it was going to be mission based I didn't think survive several waves, then get a challenge wave, rinse and repeat. Its very lame.

Star Trek online is absolute shit. Ten minutes of skipping though text and clicking on computers.

Everyone who plays STO has played WOW or some other MMO. We know how the controls work. Have us do something fun when the game starts.

Twisted Metal

Originally Posted By: Captain Sweden

mass effect 3 bitches!

Ditto. The single player story is epic but multiplayer still sucks. What blows is that it looks like you have to do the multiplayer to build up your Galactic Readiness level for the final fight. And that is utter bullshit.

it's a very sneaky DRM on top of the actual DRM that the game already comes with.

Originally Posted By: Stupid Doog

from what ive heard you can build it up some in multiplayer but you can beat the game without having to.

also EDI is hot now.

and Wrex is still hilarious

and Miranda's ass is like $\:damn\:$

And I'd reap the ass of every Asari in the galaxy!

SSX
Battlefield 3

Originally Posted By: Stupid Doog

And I'd reap the ass of every Asari in the galaxy!

i'll start with samara.

Stay away from Madden 12, knut!

Mass Effect 3

I am....Not enjoying this as much as I thought I would.

How many hours are you into it? It started out very "meh" for me but picked up around 8-10 hours.

I'm about a half hour in. I just got off Mars.

....I dunno. The feel just doesn't sit right with me. Maybe I'm being unfair, but I wish it were more like ME2's. It feels like it's trying to be an action game while still trying to retain it's RPG qualities--and failing.

None of the characters are likable so far. The script is pissing me off. The story.....*sigh* It's just off to a bad start. We'll see what happens.

Why on earth did I bother myself with trying to save the original crew in ME2 just to get stuck with an entirely new and uninteresting crew that I am not compelled in the least to interact with. Ashley and Lt "Loco musclehead" James have all the intrique of a door knob--and don't even get me started on Williams' ridiculous dramatic gazes in Shepherd's direction. Just allow me to avoid these individuals altogether if you don't mind....You do? Crap.

Oh look, the Protheans had an ace up their sleeve that we can now obsess over and *SHOCK* the Illusive Man has turned on Shepherd! Jebus, could they not have at least tried to be original.

I'm kinda regretting doing the Shadow Broker storyline in ME2 now. T'Soni and her Broker status have only served to make her more irritating it seemed. Then again, knowing the track record for Bioware so far, they probably just force her character in the game regardless of whether or not I cared about helping her in the previous game.

Why do they feel they need to tokenly change the Normandy's layout? Seriously, it's not even remotely intuitive the way it's set up. It's a friggin' eyesore with disastrous lighting.

Okay, so...Wait. Normandy SR2 is an Alliance ship now? Why? Because the sequel says so? For all intents and purposes, if it doesn't belong to Illusive Man any longer, then Shepherd has ownership. What was the point of allowing Shepherd to bad mouth the Alliance in ME2 if this installment was just going to make concessions for it anyway?

Oh FFS--I'm not even allowed to access all the aspects of the main story without multiplayer!? I don't LIKE multiplayer. Why in the hell is EA forcing me to use it? Oh, that's right. DRM. Peachy.

And of course we have the "DLC:" i.e. a piece of the original full game that they sliced up into a parcel to serve separately and call it an add on.

ME3 just seems to be a cash in on the success of the previous two games. Bioware's started taking out the RPG elements in ME2 and further hacked them out in this one. Less chances to choose your path. Fewer side missions. Less wandering around and interacting with the environment and characters. You're put more on a path in this game than anything else. The missions are shorter and repetitive. A lot of the plot points seem trite and contrived.

Also, I haven't tried multiplayer yet (because I generally don't like that function); but it seems I need to start now since I'm already at the final battle. First, what the fuck? I spent about two weeks on the first two games (round about the fifty hour mark, more or less, without DLC). A little over thirty hours in, with the From Ashes DLC; and I'm ready for the big battle. I call bullshit. Secondly, though I'm glad there is some more RPG elements that, from what I've read, comes with the multiplayer (choose an alien race and class), I would have had more fun doing that shit in game. Let me take over Anderson as he leads the Earth resistance. I could play Grunt as he fights to defend Krogan and Turian space, Kirrahe in Salarian space, Samara in Asari. It's bullshit to shoehorn in multiplayer.

All in all, I've become quite disappointed in this game.

I think the biggest offense I take from ME3 is that I can see exactly where and why it diverged so much from the premise of ME2. While the previous game was already making an effort to include more shooter elements as a means of complementing the RPG aspects, you could tell they were trying not to cross an invisible threshold that ME3 most certainly has. The storyline, while adopting a run/gun/cover approach, still allowed for character building, which was accomodated by the leeway of being in Cerberus employment. It's clear that they were going to try and use the precedent established by Shepherd's association with Illusive Man to either keep her as a Cerberus operative or give her a springboard from which to obtain freelance status. This would allow the third game to have a similar approach in terms of story and character building even though it was definitely going to have a faster pace what with the Reapers' arrival.

However, EA steps in and says, "Yeeeeaaahhh--we're gonna have to ask you to make this a much more shooter-centric game with a heavy multiplayer element. So if you could just find the time to do that, that'd be greeeeeat. Okay?"

No. Not okay. In light of this development, Bioware would have to completely defeat the purpose of the second game and make massive retcons to accomodate ME3 "developments." Further, there has to be a more complex hand to hand system that's reminescent of twitch gameplay--which makes attempting to include RPG elements meaningless.

So yeah. Bioware definitely has blame here. But EA is the biggest contributor to its mediocrity.

I think the biggest offense I take from ME3 is that I can see exactly where and why it diverged so much from the premise of ME2. While the previous game was already making an effort to include more shooter elements as a means of complementing the RPG aspects, you could tell they were trying not to cross an invisible threshold that ME3 most certainly has. The storyline, while adopting a run/gun/cover approach, still allowed for character building, which was accomodated by the leeway of being in Cerberus employment. It's clear that they were going to try and use the precedent established by Shepherd's association with Illusive Man to either keep her as a Cerberus operative or give her a springboard from which to obtain freelance status. This would allow the third game to have a similar approach in terms of story and character building even though it was definitely going to have a faster pace what with the Reapers' arrival.

However, EA steps in and says, "Yeeeeaaahhh--we're gonna have to ask you to make this a much more shooter-centric game with a heavy multiplayer element. So if you could just find the time to do that, that'd be greeeeeat. Okay?"

No. Not okay. In light of this development, Bioware would have to completely defeat the purpose of the second game and make massive retcons to accommodate ME3 "developments." Further, there has to be a more complex hand to hand system that's reminiscent of twitch gameplay--which makes attempting to include RPG elements meaningless.

So yeah. Bioware definitely has blame here. But EA is the biggest contributor to its mediocrity.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

A little over thirty hours in, with the From Ashes DLC;

What the fuck? You actually bought that shit?

DLC is a scam! Set your mind free!!!

*facepalm*

How exactly did Cerberus go from being a shadow organization with isolated cells and agents to being a full blown army with enough resources to raid the Citadel?

Seriously, what the fuck is this shit?

The Illusive Man was established as a human-sentiments activist/terrorist and an information broker. Not a fucking warlord.

Mass Effect was a boring pile of wank, so I'm not surprised that Mass Effect 3 sucks as well.

Frame rate drops (stuttering, whatever) during battles, terrible load times, easy as fuck even on the "toughest" difficulty, dumbfuck teammates that walked directly in front of you when you're trying to shoot, cruising all over the galaxy just to talk to some asshole about a missing artifact (or whatever that nonsense was).

Yeah, that game sucked.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Yeah that pissed me off! The Shepherd I started the game with was a full blown "fuck the Alliance with Cerberus' metal dildo" Renegade, but now I'm allies with them again? And I'm anti-Cerberus? If there was shit in the books that they're using as game canon then why bother giving us the choices or allowing game imports?

Glad I didn't bother with Mass Effect this time around.

God DAMN it! That ending SUCKED!

What the MOTHERFUCK!?

EA needs to eat shit and die. This is all their fault.

I'm pretty sure though that they knew that from the start. It's obviously a marketing tactic for a fourth fucking Mass Effect game.

That's right fuckers. We just got served a healthy dose of Mass Effect: The New and Improved Formula. Then, after EA's reaped the benefits of the outrage, we get to suck their tits dry of Mass Effect: Classic.

FUCK!

Sovereign: "We have no beginning. We have no end."

Legion: "The Geth will choose their own future."

EDI: "It could be the Reaper's method of reproduction."

Harbinger: "That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction."

Catalyst: "Synthetics! It's all about the SYNTHETICS man!! Don't you GET it!!??"

Anyone notice something odd about this chronology of thought?

No. Of course not. Why would you? It's perfectly normal...Because EA SAID SO!!

FUCK!!

Oh....Oh dear lord....Oh for fuck's sake. Insult to motherfucking injury. The parting message at the end of the game:

"Commander Shepard has become a legend by ending the Reaper threat. Now you can continue to build that legend through further gameplay and downloadable content."

...........Fuck.

No more Fountainheads. No more Illiads. No more Crime and Punishments. No more Citizen Kanes. No more Fight Clubs.

From now on, all visual and literary media is subject to serialization and financial investments. Every story--beginning, middle, and end--will be micromanaged. The state of each development and plot twist will only play out depending upon approval of a production force that acts solely on fiduciary grounds. Hollywood, comicbooks, and now videogames. Mediocrity prevails in the name of excessive milking.

I suppose it was inevitable. But I didn't want to believe it.

Fuck.

Finally the rule of "pariah hates it. It must be good." has met its exception.

This is the reason why the Mayans stopped their calendar on 2012. It is the year in which the principle behind Pariah's Seal of Disapproval will finally be broken.

$\:lol\:$

$\:lol\:$ $\:lol\:$

Honestly, the overall game was good. Cerberus's flip to full evil was explained and my shepherd sacrificed his life to save the galaxy like I wanted but they fucked up the execution of the finale. There should have been 3 choices with options based on your Effective Military Force and Paragon/Renegade score.

First off, change Crucible from a kid with a speech impediment to an VI orb. Shepherd is the key to stopping the Reapers so he is the Crucible. Based on how you played the game...

1. FAILURE OPTION - low of p/r score, low ems:

Anderson dies. Shepherd is told the only way to stop the Reapers is to attempt to have his consciousness uploaded to the Reapers as a virus to overwrite their programming. The attempt fails, Shepherd virus is
deleted and we're given a cut scene of Earth and the resistance being wiped out.

2. 3500-4000 EMF, up to 75% P/R score:

A) Paragon ending. Anderson dies. Shepherd sacrifices himself to control the Reapers, succeeds. Flies the Reapers and Citadel into the sun to end the cycle once and for all. he dies.

B. Renegade. Anderson dies. Shepherd destroys the Citadel, the resulting emp wipes out the Reapers, causes the mass effect relays to self destruct, and kills all life in the Sol system and any solar system that has a relay. He dies.

3. Over 5000 EMS, 75-100% P/R

A. Paragon. Anderson lives. Shepherd takes control of the Reapers and shuts them down allowing the fleets to blow them to fuck. He lives. Happy ending for all.

B. Renegade. Anderson lives. Shepherd takes control of the Reapers and uses them to wipe out all the aliens. Anderson tries to stop him but hold on, The Illusive Man is alive! He kills Anderson, he and shepherd team up to make humanity the dominant life in the galaxy, mirroring the Protheans.

Oh, and I wouldn't make it so that something as important to mass effect as a fucking prothean was dlc.

Everything--EVERYTHING is eligible to become DLC. That is the EA mentality. And gamers will eat it up because they need their fix.

If I had the time and resources, I'd organize a class action lawsuit against EA over DLC for false advertising.

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Honestly, the overall game was good. Cerberus's flip to full evil was explained

Sure, they made an exit clause after the fact, but it didn't really make sense. Just because they made sure to write it off doesn't mean it was good writing. It was still a gargantuan departure from Mass Effect 2--which had an overall better experience albeit with less developed mechanics than the third game.

Then there's all the other shit they tried to write off with just a few lines: Shepherd's entire Cerberus crew was either against her or just a strategic plant (which completely ignores the conversations you could listen to throughout the ship), the Human reaper and its form of reproduction, the 'crafting your own future' business, or the reapers characterizing themselves as gods.

I can admit the handling and gamplay was fun--even if it's still less than an RPG--but they marketed this game almost entirely with its story in mind. Its too prevalent to ignore.

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and my shepherd sacrificed his life to save the galaxy like I wanted but they fucked up the execution of the finale.

He's not dead. If you get the super awesome-o ending, then he survives--which is probably why your friends get stranded on some planet. If and when Mass Effect 4 rolls out, it's probably going to revolve around Shepherd coming back and tracking them down.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Shepherd's entire Cerberus crew was either against her or just a strategic plant

That's the second time you've used that. You've been playing Fem-Shep this whole time, haven't you? Honestly, I'm not surprised that would be your chosen surrogate in a game where your character has sex.

Jeniffer Hale is awesome--Shut up!

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/03/14/mass-effect-3-ending-outrage-raises-30k-for-childs-play-charity/

Yep. That's exactly what they want. Outrage. More publicity. More demand to sell further DLC and make more ME games.

Originally Posted By: Stupid Doog

Finally the rule of "pariah hates it. It must be good." has met its exception.

I never thought it could be but...he's right damnit!

Originally Posted By: MisterJLA

Stay away from Madden 12, knut!

http://kotaku.com/5899373/free-mass-effect-3-extended-cut-dlc-to-give-more-closure-this-summer

It's going to be free. Pariah loses.

I'm playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning now. Its a good game to play in hour long spurts because of all the side quests, but I really suck at RPG's cuz I'm not good at all the potion/poison mixing and armor modding shit.

I finished Kingdoms of Amalur recently. Did the main quest s well as a bulk of the sidequests.

It's really nice that you can play it as deeply as you want or just play it casually. For instance, I did dabble at the potion mixing and crafting just for the hell of it. But it was unnecessary. I basically just resold everything I crafted.

Your best gears will come from quests and boss drops. Just loot the fuck out of everything, equip stuff that is better than your current one, then trash what you don't need. Repair kits are cheaper than the repair npc, and heal potions are plentiful.

Just a warning, make backup saves that are at least 2 quests older than your current one. Game has gamebreaking glitches that prevent quests from being completed.

good to know

I'm using the Shepard armor from playing the ME3 demo. They seem to be holding up good but I'm not seeing better armor yet.

When you get to the part where you have to fight in the arena (this is just a sidequest, so you may want to explore a bit. It's in the mines/orange rocky area parts of the map), compete in the tournament, it's just a series of fights between a rival team and your team. Every time you win, you get a piece of good armor, you also get nice violet weapons. And when you become champion, you get a whole house to yourself.

Also, the strongest armor in the game (it's a whole set with yellow names and bonus stats when worn as a set), I think comes from the cur of vengeance. It's the boss that you fight before facing gadflow. It's easy to miss because you'll be so caught up in the story that you may forget looting the corpse.

Also, when you beat Gadflow for the first time, one of the chests holds a very strong shield.

And when you finally beat the main quest, when you wake up, you'll meet a shop owner that sells prismere weapons. Pretty much the strongest weapons I've had all throughout the game. Red blades and shit, and can one hit kill Trolls during crits.

What I don't like about the game is that there's no alternate ending. All this time I've been trying to choose answers that would be "good", and even maxed my persuasion so I can avoid some battles, but no. There's just one ending. I tried searching the net and most people pretty much confirm the single ending theme.

Max Payne 3

I gotta admit. It's pretty slick so far. I was worried since the first two games were half-assed even for their generation, but this is pretty well done.

The learning curve is pretty steep, but the handling is solid. And the story has a very hard-boiled feel to it. Not quite so noir as the previous games, but still good.

I almost wish they replaced the original voice actor with Bruce Willis since the resemblance is so strong....But that most likely would have been gratuitous.

Minecraft is a helluva drug.

Far Cry 3

Originally, I wasn't even gonna bother. The first two didn't interest me, and this one didn't either. Nonetheless, I had a sixty dollar gift card and someone made the suggestion to spend it on that. So I did.

It's pretty fun so far, but something about it seems so unbalanced. My biggest criticism by far is the lack of auto-saving. It has some, but not enough.

Walking Dead episode 2. I like the puzzle factor and the fact that your decisions affect the story, I just wish that dumb shit Duck would have died in ep. 1 like I wanted. I also hope to fuck that retarded reporter for choosing her worthless ass over the smart fat guy. On the back burner, Spartan Ops eps 6-10 look to be awesome.

Originally Posted By: Doog

I also hope to fuck that retarded reporter for choosing her worthless ass over the smart fat guy.

In episode 3, you're going to get the chance to flirt with her... and then...

Dead Space 3

While I'd definitely say that it's inferior to Dead Space 2 in terms of story and overall gameplay, it carries the series very well.

I have a feeling that all of its drawbacks are forced upon it by its difficult storyline: no matter what direction they take it, it's going to end up contrived on some level now that they've actually tracked down the source of the markers.

Hate the armor designs though. Way too bulky. I've been using the Mass Effect add-on N7 armor the whole way through since the designs that are native to the game suck ass.

Solid 9.0 overall. To reiterate: it's definitely not superior to Dead Space 2, but traversing the scrap field in outer space was a million miles of fucking awesome. They definitely built on the strengths of its predecessors with that.

I didn't even bother using the Co-op. Fucking retarded idea for this series--especially since it won't give me an official 100% level clearance without it. Fucking EA douchebags.

I'm not sure whether or not I'm cool with the story turn and what the antagonists turned out to be in the end. It has possibilities, but "contrived" doesn't even begin to describe it. I hope they've already got future storyboards written up for it, because if they jumped right into it without thinking, they're rather screwed. I'm afraid, however, that they're going to use it to establish a 'Humanity and intergalactic sentient life in general are parasites that wreak havoc on the galaxy if left unchecked' narrative. We've already gotten an ear full of the 'Humanity sucked earth dry' cliche, so it's a real possibility that they'll go down that road.

The launch trailer was interesting enough:

Phil Collins. Who'd a thunk it?

Game of Thrones.

Saw it at Gamestop used for $22 dollars. I'm only 15 minutes into the game and I can already tell it's overpriced. I'm sure the story will pick up just fine, but this combat system is balls.

I was hoping for a mediocre hack 'n slasher with a good story. Not an RPG wannabe with a broken party system.

I can tell this is just going to be a very expensive rental.

I really do not play video games much these days as I am far too busy writing songs that I shall keep to myself because they are too good for you.
The last game I played though was a marvelous piece of cutting edge technology, and I doubt has been bettered graphically or aurally, and that is Pong. What an absolute pleasure it was to play. Nothing like spending a few hours slapping white balls about.

The Last of Us.

Starts off slow with the tutorial missions, but this is easily one of the best survival horror games I've ever played. The amount of choice your given when it comes to tactics is unprecedented.

Anyone got a suggestion for a reasonably priced ($30 or less) game to kill the next eight days with? Out on medical leave @ work...

I think Pong's down to about 29 bucks.

Pong is the Asian guy that Pariah pays to blow him behind the 7-11.

29 bucks is way overpriced for that.

This is actually the first time I truly feel sorry for people who don't game on the PS3. I'm almost done with The Last of Us and it has been one of the most amazing gaming experiences I've ever had. The story, the atmosphere, and the gameplay all work together swimmingly.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

29 bucks is way overpriced for that.

And yet you keep paying it.

he's a great tipper.

I bought Assassins Creed 3 for $20 at the video store. I think I bought a bad copy though. It started out as an awesome white dude assassinating British soldiers and then abruptly changed to Cabela's Big Game Hunter:18th century edition complete with flat voice actors reading scripts in a language that like 12 people probably speak.

Injustice: Gods Among Us on the iPad. My index finger is sore now.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

It's shit.

Seriously. It fucking sucks.

I remember playing the first one years ago--also a piece a shit. I distinctly remember saying to myself, "This could be a great game...if the fucking control scheme made any gawddamn sense and it wasn't cluttered as fuck".

Surprise surprise, Chaos theory is the exact same turd as the first game. I specifically went to this one because I heard it was the peak of the series. I should have known that it's just more of the same crap that could only appeal to people who like to feel better about themselves by referring to other, more standard control schemes, as trendy or shallow or what-the-fuck-ever.

Waste of fucking money.

I played Pandora Tomorrow back on the PS2 years ago. I wanted SO BADLY to like it, but the "don't get spotted, don't hurt anyone, or yer fucked and need to restart the whole goddamn level" approach that was taken was infuriating, especially when you factor in the controls that you mentioned. For all the cool moments in the game, there was a solid two hours of me wanting to throw a controller.

GTA5

I promised myself that I wouldn't buy this damn thing brand new because I didn't want to support Rockstar anymore--even if they do make the best free roam games.

Unfortunately, someone got it for me as a gift. So the matter of not supporting them was taken out of my hands. Gives me a new perspective on buying things for other people.

....That being said, it's an awesome game so far. I don't have the same warm fuzzy playing it like I did with GTA: San Andreas--as opposed to GTA4, of which I have very little positives to mention--and the overall map is pretty empty (I really wish they included San Fierro). Despite these drawbacks however, the interactivity with the environment is amazing and the writing is miles better than what's come before it.

Nowie. You played it yet?

yes

Originally Posted By: PCG342

get better at it then you cunt

btw, I have played a lot of games recently.
Finished:
X Com Enemy Unknown
Splinter cell blacklist
Assassins creed 3
Injustice:Gods among us
Mafia 2
Split second
Dead island
Dead island riptide
Dead Pool

Got pissed off with cause its bugged to hell:
Grid 2

Need to finish:
Spec ops:The line
GTA V
Syndicate
Hitman absolution
Shift 2 unleashed
Farcry 3 blood dragon
R.I.P.D

And then theres the shit loada free games that I need to either start or continue:
Saints row the third
Payday the heist
Shadow of the colossus
Ico
Jax 1,2 & 3
Demons souls
Kingdoms of amalur
When vikings attack
Spartacus legends
Teken Revolution
Dead or alive 5
Littlebigplanet Karting
Littlebigplanet 2
Catherine
Lord of the rings war in the north
Joe Danger 2 the movie
Mass effect 3
God of war HD
F1 race stars
the cave
Bioshock 2
Vanquish
Bulletstorm

Blacklist? Amaleur? Catherine???

Do you even know what that game is?

its fucking weird

It's a puzzle game about cheating on your girlfriend and then making a deal with the devil who is now a bartender?

And you got the freaky deeky sex scenes like every other Japanese dating game.

Oh please.

I knew it was only a matter of time before the game started preaching in my ear.

And Rockstar actually thinks using Trevor as a mouthpiece of how 'torture is useless' or PMCs 'shit on the poor' somehow makes the message more legitimate.

*sigh*

Guh! Seriously, Rockstar needs to get a new act. Using Trevor as their political voice box is so stupid.

"I'm a criminal! So I know what I'm talking about when it comes to injustices!"

That's great. But it really defeats your point. Especially when you feel you have to make rat-bastard numero uno of the game as charismatic as possible just so your propoganda will resonate.

And of course, they're justifying every act of thievery and murder they commit by pointing the finger at the government and private enterprise, screaming "THEY do it too!" as though they think a city as advanced and economically prosperous (compared to the larger hubs of other nations) as Los Santos could possibly be supported on a framework consisting purely of theft and homicide.

If Capitalism and American law enforcement are as shitty as they've had Micheal and Trevor drone on about, then they really need to explain why they gave their fictional city such decent infrastructure and a fairly manageable crime rate. I mean, I'm hardly a fan of government since, you know, that is what's killing the market in the US, but those Rockstar fabricated scenarios of amateur-hour torture sessions, cross-organizational rivalries between government agencies, and PMCs shitting on the poor are just so much ridiculous fluff.

Does anyone really buy their shit?

Nowhereman. Do me a solid and head up North to Scotland so you can suicide bomb Rockstar North's studio.

People point to this image as an example of "game logic," but it's actually very realistic. The office was ignoring the bazooka because he thought it was the guy's dick.

'cuz black guys have big dicks. Lothar told me.

Fucking hell Pariah can you not just enjoy something for what it is? A game where you get to run around killing people and robbing banks.
Trevor is fucking hilarious, and you are not, so fuck off and die you cunt.

Yes, fine, but what about Rockstar North? Did you do as I asked?

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I didn't say"have".

Just played through ep. 1 of "The Wolf Among Us." Good stuff. I was originally introduced to Telltale's games when the first season of Sam and Max was released, got sidetracked until The Walking Dead went on sale, then snagged the Wolf Among Us season pass as soon as it became available.

Unless you absolutely hate either "Fables" and/or Telltale's adventure games it's well worth a look.

Dont you ever shut the fuck up?
Nobody cares. Go fake internet suicide yourself again.

Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days

I don't care what anyone says: this is a damn decent, atmospheric shooter. It corrects all the mistakes of its predecessor while building upon its strengths.

It's true that the dialogue is shit, but its genre doesn't require brilliant writing. Above all else, it's about two guys who always screw up, and cause a shit-ton of mayhem in the process.

On that note: I was disappointed to find out that IO cancelled all projects, including Kane and Lynch 3, in favor of focusing on the Hitman franchise--which they've already ruined. Sucks.

I liked Dog Days (and for that matter, Dead Men) for what it was. It's the kind of game I can enjoy playing co-op when I'm in the mood for something that just borders on mindless entertainment. My only complaint is that whenever I tried (about 2 yrs. ago) NOBODY was playing online. The arcade mode was intriguing, but because all of the AI "teammates" work together and only you can turn traitor, it was kinda lame.

Something I've noticed just now after playing both games is that the player has a lot of space to move around in each level. But at the same time, you're not pressured to traverse every corner to make sure you don't miss anything like in a bunch of other games where you're running around for no reason. every area within these fairly spacious environments serves a strategic purpose relative to the scope of the gunfights.

The fights in Dead Men aren't scaled as well as in Dog Days (with respect to the environments), but I can attribute that to the sequel correcting a weakness of the first game.

Yeah. Dead Men would've been a million times more enjoyable if hitting a target wasn't akin to pissing in the wind. I was thankful that neither game had you collecting random shit to get a trophy/unlock/higher rating, but still think the online-only trophies in Dog Days are horeshit. Have you heard the rumor about Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel being possible casting picks for a film adaptation?
Butler as Kane I can see. Diesel? Sure, if he gains 40 pounds....

Ugh! No.

Just use Brian Bloom and, perhaps, Michael Ironside.

Honestly, I'd rather have an animation anyway.

And in my mind, inaccuracy is a part of the game. Budgeting your ammunition as you fire controlled bursts until you finally achieve the level of probability required to actually hit the target. In my mind, that's another one of those little things that made Dog Days so unique: it's not so much about applying accuracy as it is about coping with inaccuracy.

world of warplanes. it's been live for almost two weeks now. I was really involved in the beta but work got busy enough for me to get really rusty by the time the final release happened. add in the fact that all the higher-tier planes I unlocked in beta were taken away and replaced with the same tier-1 n00bkites as everyone else, and it's been an interesting week or so for me.

Just picked up Uncharted 3 and red dead revolver. Will be playing the mess out of them

Originally Posted By: Captain Sammitch

I benched Ben Tate this week.

it's a euphemism for having sex.

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

Just picked up Uncharted 3 and red dead revolver. Will be playing the mess out of them

Do you mean Redemption?

whops. Yeah that's what I meant

Got Arkham Origins used for about fifteen bucks off. Here's to hoping its better than the craptastic Arkham City.

Not hearing Kevin Conroy's voice is a bit of a turn off, but Craig's isn't too bad--if rather robotic.

And the costume sucks. Hopefully I can switch to the classic costume down the road.

Wait, wait... Are you saying that you don't like something? This is unbelievable. [/orange font]

Arkham City is regarded as not only the best Batman game, but one of the best games in recent years ... of course Pariah hates it.

As for what I am playing, all PS4 games:
Assassins creed 4
Injustice:Gods among us
Lego Marvel
Killzone Shadow Fall
Need For Speed Rivals
Resogun
War thunder
Contrast
DC Universe Online
Warframe

Ugh! So, apparently, Barbara Gordon is some kind of computer genius before being crippled.

"But...But...We needed some way to get a sassy young female foil for Batman!"

Shit sucks.

Barbara Gordon can program me a sandwich from the kitchen mainframe.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Ugh! So, apparently, Barbara Gordon is some kind of computer genius before being crippled.

"But...But...We needed some way to get a sassy young female foil for Batman!"

Shit sucks.

You do know that Batgirl has always had a photographic memory yes?
Or do you think that she learned to be a computer genius in a few months after being crippled?
Most computer geniuses start learning at an early age.
Stop whining for whinings sake you fucktard.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Ugh! So, apparently, Barbara Gordon is some kind of computer genius before being crippled.

"But...But...We needed some way to get a sassy young female foil for Batman!"

Shit sucks.

Yeah, good luck with that one.

I do find it funny that the guy who thinks that Batman can do everything on his own and needs no help believes it impossible for Barbara to have a superior knowledge of computers without a spinal injury.

I didn't say anything was impossible. I said they made concessions to force her into the dialogue.

But I suppose you guys like sidekick cliches and crappy dialogue.

No you didn't. You bitched because she was a computer expert before being crippled (not only totally plausible, but very likely). It's much more likely that you just don't like her inclusion because you don't like Batman having allies (a point that you've made over and over again) than any fault of the game's writing.

I can multitask. Two birds with one stone and all that.

If you didn't like Arkham City you won't like origins. It's more of the same. Which is good for those of us who thought it was amazing. For you...just more bitching.

KNUT

YOU'RE BACK

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

If you didn't like Arkham City you won't like origins. It's more of the same. Which is good for those of us who thought it was amazing. For you...just more bitching.

I like it when Pariah dislikes something as it generally means everyone else in the world will like it (well all except Pro, but thats because his shrivelled brain barely progressed beyond Pong and Space Invaders).

Originally Posted By: Pariah

I didn't say anything was impossible. I said they made concessions to force her into the dialogue.

At which point did they make concessions?
This game is Arkham "Origins" and its all about origins and firsts.
Its not the DCU or the new 52, its the Arkham universe meaning it has its own timeline. That means they can do whatever the fuck they want with the history of the timeline. The fact that Batman met most of his rogues for the first time in one night must really piss you off as well.

Simple fact is that this origin for Barbara makes more sense than the DCU origin, being that its actually setting up a valid reason that she became Oracle (and unless I am forgetting something, there is nothing in the Arkham universe to suggest she was Batgirl or crippled, so its entirely plausible that the Arkham Oracle is just a really smart woman who is a computer operator and was never a superhero who later got crippled).
What really made no sense if you think about it was that Batgirl in the traditional DCU suddenly became a computer genius just because she could no longer be Batgirl. She had to be a computer genius beforehand, even with her photographic memory.

As Doc said, you are not complaining because it makes no sense or is a concession, you are complaining because you just dont like the fact Batman has allies, especially female ones.

By your logic maybe we should all believe that Batman didnt train from an early age or learn science n shit when he was young. He automatically learned it all the minute he put on the bat suit.

Bruce Wayne prayed and asked god to make science and martial arts super easy to learn, and god delivered. It's fact.

You're thinking of the Elseworlds story written by Billy Graham.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns

If you didn't like Arkham City you won't like origins. It's more of the same. Which is good for those of us who thought it was amazing. For you...just more bitching.

exactly

Bruce Wayne prayed and asked god to make science and martial arts super easy to learn, and god delivered. It's Elseworlds fact.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

I do find it funny that the guy who thinks that Batman can do everything on his own and needs no help believes it impossible for Barbara to have a superior knowledge of computers without a spinal injury.

Leave it to you to parrot hack writers.

I just got to the segment where Alfred gives him the "you can't do it alone" speech. Another *blech* literary excuse to identify Batman as a franchise operation rather than a character.

"You're not a man on an island Bruce!"; go fuck yourself Rocksteady's version of Alfred.

Obsessiveness and mental trauma is a study of individuality. Not collectivism. Fuck this shit. I'm taking all three Batman games back to the store: I can't even look at them anymore.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

As Doc said, you are not complaining because it makes no sense or is a concession, you are complaining because you just dont like the fact Batman has allies, especially female ones.

That's exactly why it's a concession. Even I were to admit that Batman has gained allies, that doesn't mean any given Batman story requires them to be identified as relevant functionaries to his character let alone elements upon which his efficacy is dependent.

And, by the way, I liked the idea of Cassandra--even though she was Rucka's brainchild. Bitchy Barbara, on the other hand, has always been annoying and superfluous, serving solely as a functionary for attracting more demographics. It's a shame Moore didn't kill her off.

I have no problem with the idea of Batman using other people to meet his goals: that's exactly what both his and Gordon's character have done through the books' history. However, setting up a sensitive network and establishing "family" ties (not to mention associating with the JLA) has always been silly when you consider the character you're working with. It's just a ploy to attract different types of consumers--hardly consonant to Batman's unhinged behavior.

What do you think of Tower of Babel?

I thought the idea was great. Leave it to Mark Waid to ruin it by using it as some sort of underdeveloped scheme to reveal Batman's identity to everyone--not to mention his typically poor dialogue and narrative.

If I ever got ahold of the DCU continuum, I'd revisit ToB and take the story to its logical conclusion: Batman only joined the JLA to spy and develop deterrents to potential threats to Gotham, and not because he agreed with it.

and to look at Wonder Woman's boobs.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

go fuck yourself Rocksteady's version of Alfred.

And once again, your ignorance kicks into overdrive seeing as the biggest complaint most people have with this game is that it wasnt made by Rocksteady. They may have created this universe, but that Alfred speech has fuck all to do with them.

Whatever.

I got a full refund for Origins and a buck sixty for Arkham City. When it came right down to it though, I couldn't give up on Arkham Asylum. Even with its character and dialogue issues, it's still superior to the others in terms of story, and I wanted to keep at least one Free-Flow Combat game.

Finally picked up BioShock Infinite+DLC, local game store had a deal going so I grabbed the BioShock 1&2 Ultimate Rapture Edition along with. I never finished BioShock 1 due to a game-stopping bug in the PC version (can't get required items from safe in Arcadia), but I enjoyed what I did play. Probably gonna play through Infinite then when I'm bored and just trying to collect trophies, get back to 1&2.

Also: Anyone else looking forward to the Thief reboot?

Pariah, have you tried Sleeping Dogs? It's a free combat game as well. Kinda like GTA with a better fighting system. It's not as polished as Batman when it comes to combat (mainly because it's supposed to be more rooted in realism - you're a martial artist/street brawler, not the Batman) but it's enjoyable enough and actually incorporates the surroundings better.

Well SOM, you have now given him another great game to bitch about.

They totally ruined the Sleeping Dogs character.

I heard about that game, but it really didn't look that interesting to me. Maybe I'll grab it if it's cheap enough.

Playing Metal Gear Solid 2 VR missions right now.

It never occurred to me over the past thirteen years how shitty the control scheme is. I must have had a severe case of cognitive dissonance.

Black.

I suppose it was a decent game for its time, but it feels so deficient without the ability to sprint or jump.

did you go back to the PS2 or just using the PS3's BC feature?

BC feature.

Launch PS3 still works pretty damn well, but I wish the slim models had the BC capability. The bulkiness of the current console is less than attractive.

I admit that I'm half tempted to go out and buy a flip-top PS2 just so I'll have a back up when the PS3 eventually dies--or the emotion engine burns out.

backup isn't needed these days if you just want a means to play the games. The PS2 emulator on the PC is already at a decent enough stage as far as compatibility is concerned, and PCs themselves have already advanced to the point that speed is no longer a concern.

Add the fact that the PS3's sixaxis can be used on a PC means that you can get a pretty similar experience if you have a midrange PC (I'm getting a lot of mileage out of a low end Ivy Bridge pentium, using its integrated graphics chip)

Honestly, emulation never occurred to me.

I wonder if someone will ever develop a way to emulate PS3 games. With the complexities of parallel processing, it's extremely doubtful...but it would be pretty cool.

PS3 emulation is kind of a hot topic, but even emu authors themselves admit that it's not feasible due to the sheer difference in architecture and because of how powerful the system is.

Sony is crappy with security but they're pretty good with proprietary hardware. The PCSX2 authors are having problems even with the PS2's VU chip because it's capable of pumping out texture in parallel, and in amounts (not speed) that would make even current videocards struggle if no hacks/shortcuts are used. Thankfully it's only used in rare cases (Final Fantasy XII, for instance, with Basch's mist attack at the end - even in low resolutions, the final part brings a GT 240 to single digit FPS)

It's been said that PS4 emulation would be more feasible than PS3 due to the similar architecture but even that is not possible with current hardware (in fact, the original Xbox doesn't have any actual playable emulator yet even though it's basically just an old PIII PC with a videocard that was considered midrange a decade ago. All they were able to do is a wrapper that translates function calls into DirectX ones, so it only works on a per game basis.)

I wrote out a couple of flow charts on the idea once. It always ends up getting stymied by the fact that no two PS3 games are programmed to work the same way. I could only come up with a wrapper idea as well. I was a bit more ambitious though: I figured it might be possible to develop a reusable framework that archives how a given emulator would interpret multiple games' function calls. Basically, you'd have a new Class for each game franchise.

Ultimately though, it's still a messily coded 'per game basis' system--and it would probably take forever to figure out how each individual game is supposed to interact with the CPU.

Another idea that occurs to me would be to simulate the five cores needed to run the games using a powerful generic processor.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Sony is crappy with security but they're pretty good with proprietary hardware. The PCSX2 authors are having problems even with the PS2's VU chip because it's capable of pumping out texture in parallel, and in amounts (not speed) that would make even current videocards struggle if no hacks/shortcuts are used. Thankfully it's only used in rare cases (Final Fantasy XII, for instance, with Basch's mist attack at the end - even in low resolutions, the final part brings a GT 240 to single digit FPS)

I'm a tad confuzzled: do you mean Sony designed it so only they'd know how to use it?

I meant it's basically way ahead of its time as far as frame buffer effects are concerned.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Another idea that occurs to me would be to simulate the five cores needed to run the games using a powerful generic processor.

You know what, I take this back. There'd be way too much time-splicing needed to simulate parallel streaming. You actually need a processor with at least six cores.

hyperthreading would help close that gap somewhat. though I'd love to see what could be accomplished if you let a hyperthreaded hexacore like an i7-4930K do the driving...

If I had the time and resources, I'd make the attempt.

Playing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.

Main single player stories completed on Assassins Creed 4, Lego Marvel and Injustice so currently playing the single player on Killzone Shadow Fall.
Got a couple of DLC to play through on AC4 as well though.

Hitman: Contracts

It's kind of jarring to play this right after Silent Assassin after the major changes in interface (mostly improvements).

Still pissed though that Agent 47 couldn't actually initiate any hand to hand combat until the third game. For now, I can only pistol whip NPCs--and that's not even a particularly functional option.

Right now, I'm trying to pull off the garbage truck challenge in Hitman: Blood Money. The goal is knock everyone out without a big alert and then feed them into the garbage shredder down the street from Sinestro's house.

It's kind of a bitch.

Playing Absolution.

Bought it for about fourteen bucks.

Time to assess the damage.

Oh dear sweet God in heaven this writing FUCKING SUCKS!!

Why? Why?? WHY????

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Oh dear sweet God in heaven this writing FUCKING SUCKS!!

We all think your writing sucks as well. Glad you finally see that yourself.

Seriously, this is fucking retarded.

At the end of Blood Money, it was revealed that Diana was working for the British government and, by extension, so was the Agency. Now they're making it seem as though it's a shadowy US organization run by some nefarious fat guy with a mustache who had 47 signed up as some kind of full time agent with residual sentimentality for Diana. He only worked for the Agency on commission for fuck's sake, and the original games made it rather apparent that he could give a fuck whether or not she's on his hit-list. He doesn't have to be devoid of reaction, but that doesn't mean it makes sense to have him standing over her, debating whether or not to finish her off.

And this Victoria cunt? It's Pandora in GoW3 all over again. There's no way IN HELL he would have taken her as a charge. He would have sooner executed her just to spite Mr. Mustachio for barking orders in his ear.

Fuck this shit. I'm glad it sold as poorly as it did. They should be ashamed.

I've been revisiting the PS2 and PSP library. There's a lot of good shit in there. It also turns out that my cheap <60watt HTPC can handle their emulation just fine.

Just got it yesterday and haven't had much chance to play it. So far, so good.

*This spot reserved for Pariah's disapproving comments.*

I disapprove of this game.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Just got it yesterday and haven't had much chance to play it. So far, so good.

What system are you playing on? How's it compare to the first three?

It doesn't matter. The game warrants nothing but disapproval.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

It doesn't matter. The game warrants nothing but disapproval.

I get that it must be fucking epic, but I'm curious about what it keeps or changes from the originals.

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Just got it yesterday and haven't had much chance to play it. So far, so good.

What system are you playing on? How's it compare to the first three?

I only played the first one very briefly years ago as it belonged to a friend of mine who moved not too long after he let me borrow it. I barely remember it, so I'm not really the best person to compare the old to the new.

I've got it for XBox One and still have only played it maybe a total of two or three hours. I'm pretty much still adjusting to the control set-up. It's good so far, but I still haven't really gotten far enough into the game to definitively say whether it's good or bad (I'm sure Pariah has read a script of it online to tell you that).

The first two (Dark Project and The Metal Age) were pretty agonizingly slow, but the payoff was when all your waiting and creeping around paid off in a perfect score. Deadly Shadows, the third in the series, was actually available on the Xbox, and went for more of a 1st/3rd person hybrid system and implemented a wall-hug feature that made hiding in shadows slightly easier. I'm just wondering what the progression is like for the reboot.

Go and fucking buy it yourself then you tool.
He already told you he cant compare the game.
Twats like you always want people to spend their money to help you.

I get my copy tomorrow when its released, and I aint telling you shit.

Just finished playing Hitman: Absolution. It sucked all the way to the end. I'm in the middle of writing a very lengthy letter (forum post) to IO about why this game sucks so much shit.

Right now I'm playing the Darkness 2. After that, it's going to be Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

Liking The Darkness so far.

Wow. Nowhereman's on the rag again.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

You still believe in a thing called love.

That game SUCKED!

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Wow. Nowhereman's on the rag again.

Eat shit, you Shaggy Rogers looking mutha fucka.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Just got it yesterday and haven't had much chance to play it. So far, so good.

A very decent game. It's all first person, which I'd like to have the ability to switch to third for some of the stealth aspects of the game. Mostly because in situations where you have to drop down to a beam or walkway, your guy can totally miss it or just clip the edge and slide off. It also sometime requires just a little too much precision to climb some ledges. Still, it's nowhere near as bad as Assassin's Creed's jacked up parkour system. I expected more puzzles too. Maybe it's because I'm not really that far into the main story as I've spent a lot of time on side missions and replaying previous ones to get more loot to buy upgrades. I also wish that they'd institute some quick move points as this sneaking back and forth from one end of the city to the other is getting tiring.

Still, it's a fun game. I think that I just wish that I'd waited and spent my money on Titanfall instead. I'm not much of a fan of FPS's to begin with and even less so of online multiplayer ones (which is all Titanfall is), but I played the open Beta a couple of weeks back and it was fun as hell.

I just bought Stick of Truth. Kinda boring so far. I see a return in its future.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

I just bought Stick of Truth.

You would have been better served by spending that money to remove the one from your ass.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Just got it yesterday and haven't had much chance to play it. So far, so good.

I like this game but have some issues with it.
Firstly the graphics barely look any different to the previous gen consoles, with some atrocious voice acting and cut scene animations.
Trying to negotiate the map is a nightmare as well, due to the different levels and windows etc. Even travelling back and forth regularly, you still can barely remember a route back.

That said, the stealth aspect is a nice change of pace from most FP games, and its certainly a game to savour rather than a blast through like the multitude of games these days.

The touchpad on the PS4 controller helps you select weapons etc easier, but its far from perfect.

I do find it funny though that whenever PC gamers start throwing out their elitist bullshit about how superior graphics on a PC are, when a series thats traditionally a PC game comes to consoles, its something that doesnt have stunning graphics.

Oh, and the other thing that pisses me off is the constant loading screens you need just for climbing through a fucking window, or moving from one tiny area to another tiny area.
I thought we had moved beyond all that shit

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Especially since we're fucking downloading the games to the hard drive now. I also hate having to jimmy a window open that I'd just climbed in through. And don't make me have to repeatedly push a button to do it just to make it seem interactive. But that's more of an overall problem with games at large.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

I like this game but have some issues with it.
Firstly the graphics barely look any different to the previous gen consoles, with some atrocious voice acting and cut scene animations.

I've noticed a few spots when characters' voices are a lot lower than they should be compared to all the other sounds (background noises/speech or music) in the scene. Sometime you can barely hear them.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

That said, the stealth aspect is a nice change of pace from most FP games, and its certainly a game to savour rather than a blast through like the multitude of games these days.

As I said, I'm having fun going back through maps trying to be stealthier or to find loot/special items that I missed and doing the side mission stealing to progress the game too far yet.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

The touchpad on the PS4 controller helps you select weapons etc easier, but its far from perfect.

I'd like more hotkeys than what we're given. Bringing up the item wheel only slows down the action, not stop it. So if you're dropped into the middle of some guards due to the imprecise jumping mechanism, they can beat the shit out of you before you switch weapons or use health.

All that said if Pariah were to play it, he'd keep going back to the brothel mission so that he can spank it to the madame.

Funnily enough I have only just made it to the brothel mission as been doing lots of the side missions given to me by that fat bloke (no not Llance). And when I was spying through the wall, there was some guy asking to have his nipples twisted, and I am sure it was Pariah.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Yeah I thought similar. If I had to jimmy a window to get into the building, why do I have to jimmy it again to get out if I basically busted the lock getting in?

Mind you, I'm playing on PS3.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Yeah, they kinda took Garret's voice acting to Christian Bale Batman levels of stupid at times. That coupled with the character design change (Leather gimp suit looking thing and.... eye shadow?) kinda disappointed me.

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As I said, I'm having fun going back through maps trying to be stealthier or to find loot/special items that I missed and doing the side mission stealing to progress the game too far yet.

Yeah. I always likened Thief to Hitman or even SWAT in that way. Seldom goes shit go as planned the first time around, so like it or hate it, you find yourself replaying damn near the entire game at least three times over till you get it right.

The fact that it's first-person only is kinda shitty. With Thief 3 (Deadly Shadows) they implemented a wall-hug functionality that let you stick to the wall, and switched to third person, a bit like the cover system in Rainbow Six Vegas.

So far (I've only just gotten the wrench) I'm a bit disappointed.
While I'm happy to see that Thief is back, I can't help but feel it could've been done better. Admittedly, in terms of a stealth game, it's still more enjoyable than Assassin's Creed. The jumping has always been sloppy and haphazard, and while they aren't AS bad in this one, the voice acting -- particularly from NPC's -- has been corny at best. This is their fourth go at this franchise. You'd think they'd have a handle on some of that shit by now.
It's a game that makes me cringe at some of its shortcomings (so far) but I've liked the concept and gameplay itself enough over the years that I'll probably still wind up feeding that obsessive desire to keep retrying levels to improve my score.

Before any of you go on the asylum mission, quick key fire and burst arrows.

Luckily I unwittingly bought the wire cutters and scalpel early on as I woulda had a lot tougher times on missions or missed some nice collectables first time around. Just finished mission 4 with the great safe, and going round clearing up a few more side missions.

The wrench is heavily overpriced compared to its usefulness. The wire cutters earn their keep a lot more.

Yeah but at least with the wrench you can get to otherwise unreachable rooms etc by going through the vents, or steal the wall plaques if you are trying to be a completist.

The wire cutters are essential though.

Gonna grab Dark Souls 2 later today.

If nothing else, I know it will be better than that piece of shit Thief. And that makes it all worth it.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Before any of you go on the asylum mission, quick key fire and burst arrows.

Interestingly I just did that mission, and didnt need to use the bow even once. Only time I did try using it, I couldnt kill any of those zombie things, and they kill you with one hit. I just sneaked past them all.

Liking Dark Souls 2 so far. Not sure if I'd say it's coming across quite so well as the first one though. The armor designs are definitely inferior. In fact, they suck compared to the original.

They remind me of the Nordic designs in Skyrim.....which, as it occurs to me, might be inspiration for this game's designs. Sucks.

I just got portal 2 and killzone 3. These killzone games are like crack. They make call of duty look like toddler games

Killzone 3 pissed me off. I'm not saying the first two games' stories were stellar, but KZ3's writing was just fucking retarded.

I also wasn't too fond of what they did to the handling: Killzone 2's weighty feel was challenging, but not unreasonably so. Killzone 3 screwed that up. when it tried to mimic the handling of other contemporary FPSs.

Finished Dark Souls 2. The ending was a yawn-fest. That's not to say that the first game's endings offered a very thorough explanation of the events that took place, but at least they made sense--and there were two of them! In this one, you're forced to settle for the one ending.

And quite frankly, regardless of Dark Souls 2's apparent quality, Drangleic does not offer nearly as much intrigue and/or replay value as Lordran did in the first game.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Especially since we're fucking downloading the games to the hard drive now.

yeah I'm not sure if anyone anticipated how big a problem loadscreening would become even knowing how fucking massive games are getting. I'd venture a guess that we'll see a revision of either the ps4 or xbone within a year or two featuring a solid-state drive. the cost of high-quality ones from vendors like samsung is plummeting, it wouldn't represent a significant reduction in capacity, and my guess is quite a few gamers would shell out a little more to trade up to a system where load screens are a nonissue.

But load screens should not even be an issue anymore. I have played bigger games on both the PS3 and PS4 (Uncharted, GTA, Infamous etc), and they never really have any load screens once the game starts as they do a massive load up at the start of the game, and any other loading is pretty much done in the background while they play cutscenes etc.

What Thief has done is move backwards in time.

As for games. I got MGS ground zeroes, which is a waste of money as I completed it in half an hour. I know its a prologue, and was aware it was not a full game, but to pay nearly £25 for something shorter than most dlc that cost nearly a quarter of the price is a joke. People defending it saying that it unlocks new side missions once completed are failing to see that some people are not going to go back and play it again, so would have been preferable if all side missions were available during initial play.
Game should have been no more than £10.

inFamous second son though is much better. Spent four days or so completing it on expert difficulty (once again, friend complaining its too short, but he plays on pussy difficulty, so what does he expect?), where I was able to play all side missions as I go, not after the game is completed. Probably got a good 15 hours or more out of it.
As per usual though, inFamous needs a second playthrough as you have to play as both good and evil with your choices if you really want to get the full benefit of this game (and see both endings).
Graphics are fantastic, voice acting and motion capture are excellent, and gameplay is damn addictive.
As much as I enjoyed Thief as a game, it was a let down on so many levels, looking no better than a PS3 game, but Second son proves you can have a great game and great graphics, large open world, and no stupid fucking load screens all the time.

friday nights are planetside 2 nights for me.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

I agree, to a point. I'm not saying that Thief DIDN'T drop the ball, but in terms of load screens, I can see justification for some titles to still rely on them.

All the bigger (typically open-world) games you mention also have some noticeably short draw distances/severe pop-up, and I've noticed they also tend to be more prone to batshit crazy bugs and clipping errors. In fact, I think the only "open world" game I've played that didn't have any sort of clipping issues was Far Cry 3, but even then, the AI would regularly lose its shit, especially if an NPC was behind the wheel.

The rendering shortcomings seem minor until you're hauling ass in any especially fast vehicle, in which case you appear to be speeding through a barren wasteland with random shit sprouting out of nowhere.

I will concede that some games do a great job of eliminating load screens and not having all the draw distance issues, but they're generally set in mostly confined spaces. Dead Space 2 is probably the greatest example I can think of; I never saw any pop-up or any issues with texture rendering, but with the exception of starting the game and dying (often) there were no load screens.

Fuck me, are you suggesting that sitting there waiting for poxy load screens on a game that has a fairly small map, graphics from a previous generation and pretty much a single colour palette is more acceptable than a hugely playable game that might have the odd graphical glitch or work around?
People do not want to see constant fucking loading screens. This is not 1994.

94 was a golden time for gaming.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Yes, because randomly spastic vehicle physics (GTA, Just Cause, Far Cry 3, Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire) and randomly being swallowed by an endless void under the earth's surface (see above, add Mercenaries, Infamous series, and a fistful of others...) are "hugely playable."

And considering I played nearly all those games to death and never had those issues, yes they are hugely playable. Random occurrences vs constant loading .. yeah, you stick with your idiotic opinion.
You are talking out of your arse as always, and nothing I say will change that.

Well, yeah, nothing you say would change my opinion. That's kind of why/how people HAVE opinions.

But your opinion is worthless as its not even remotely based on fact seeing as you think games like Farcry 3 and Red Dead Redemption are NOT massively playable.
See opinions only work if there is some kind of validity and fact to back them up.
Its kinda like someone saying they are a man, then having a gun wrestled out of their hands by a girl.
Or pretending to be their own brother, then denying it.

I love Far Cry 3 but it's not as playable as Red Dead Redemption.

I liked the territory system of FC3, but as soon as you take a section of the island away from the mercs, it basically becomes a big patch of nothing. I expected that they would employ the San Andreas system and have the mercs try and take back the land that they lost, but no attempts were made.

RDR, by comparison had enemies moving in and out of areas over and over again throughout the game.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

But your opinion is worthless as its not even remotely based on fact seeing as you think games like Farcry 3 and Red Dead Redemption are NOT massively playable.

Sooooo. You feel that it's the player's responsibility to save at every turn just in case the game's physics, AI, or even concept of "solid ground" go tits-up at random, and that in case of such an event immediately following the completion of an especially tedious mission or difficult challenge but preceding the opportunity to save would not lessen the average player's opinion of the game?

For me, if I just got through unlocking something new, getting some tough-to-reach collectible(s) or completing a tough challenge and the game breaks, I'm not too keen on going back to that particular title anytime soon.

Let me clarify: I enjoyed a lot of the games I mentioned. Far Cry 3 was great except, as Pariah stated, once you beat the game, there's really nothing to do. RDR was a game that I regretted not buying sooner. LA Noire was a mixed bag for me, but overall I WANTED to keep playing. Hell, I even got a laugh out of the Saint's Row series, retardedly easy as the actual game was.

But holy fuck, did it frustrate me when everything went to hell and some significant bit of progress was lost. What I'm saying is, if there were the odd load screens here and there, and virtually no fuckups, I'd be okay with them. I'm not saying the number of load screens in "Thief" is any more okay than the odd bug.

I'm also not saying the bugs are a constant/regular thing, but even a few here and there, especially at the wrong moment, can create a less-than-favorable experience. I mean, Jesus Christ, if I wanted to complain about a persistently buggy game I would've gone straight for The Elder Scrolls V: Buggy as Fuck... I mean Skyrim. Your inference about the regularity of the bugs I mentioned is your inference and yours alone. Good for you if you never encountered any issues, I'm sure you're not alone in that, but I'm also sure neither am I.

And once again, these issues seem restricted to you, so fucking shut up.
As for saving yourself? Why on earth would you ever rely 100% on auto save? Whenever I play games like Fallout or Elder scrolls, I am forever doing manual saves. Main reason being in case I make a shitty decision and need to back track. The same goes for FC3, RDR and GTA.
If you think its a hardship having to manual save, fuck knows how you would have survived in the days auto save didnt exist.

autosave? really?

there's a reason quicksave and quickload have been hotkeyed at least as far back as the first half-life.

Where are the hotkeys on your XBox/PS3 controller(s), Phil?

IN THE ASS!

DAMN NEAR KILLED EM!

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Where are the hotkeys on your XBox/PS3 controller(s), Phil?

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of my superior gaming platform.

#pcmasterrace

Hashtags are for homos.

oh man, he just called you gay!

Originally Posted By: Captain Sammitch

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Where are the hotkeys on your XBox/PS3 controller(s), Phil?

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of my superior gaming platform.

#pcmasterrace

Too bad that you're going to have to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade it in order to play the next big game in six months.

Right now, I'm confined to PC as well. Other people were retarded enough to bring their gaming systems. Good luck being able pack those things securely, fuckheads.

All the stuff I've been playing on my laptop is 10-20 years old. I'm fairly content with playing all the older RPGs and scrollers in my spare time.

I think we've all known each other long enough for you to be honest with us, Pariah.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Right now, I'm confined to PC as well. Other people were retarded enough to bring their gaming systems. Good luck being able download tons of tranny porn onto those, fuckheads.

All the stuff I've been wanking to on my laptop is 10-20 years old. I'm fairly content with fondling myself to the older tranny on tranny action in my spare time.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Originally Posted By: Captain Sammitch

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Where are the hotkeys on your XBox/PS3 controller(s), Phil?

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of my superior gaming platform.

#pcmasterrace

Too bad that you're going to have to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade it in order to play the next big game in six months.

Yeah. I'd be all for PC gaming if not for the fact that the bar is constantly being raised in terms of hardware and performance, and so there's a definite sense of "the grass is always greener on the other side", though it could be argued that the "green" in question is all the money NOT spent upgrading. And while I'm not saying you NEED to constantly upgrade, it doesn't take long before things like visuals and scalability eclipse what your system can handle and performance suffers.

South Park: the stick of truth. It's fucking hilarious and not a bad game either. I watched the 3 episode tie in before playing and I love all the background stuff from old episodes. plus, all of Canada feels like an 8 bit NES Final Fantasy throw back. Good memories! In almost 8 years of marriage this is the only game that I have played where my wife says "don't turn it off, I want to watch you play"

Lego Marvel Heroes.

They went overboard with the puzzles in this one. Each chapter is like 80% puzzles, 15% moving from one place to the next, and 5% combat. It's a shame, it's got a nice engine driving the combat - even better than the Ultimate Alliance games. Large guys like Hulk (who can transform into Bruce or Hulk anytime you want) control and fight like a large guy, Iron Man controls better than he did in any of his past games (the flight and repulsor blasts feel natural while looking as cool as it did in the movies), Captain America and Spider-Man's melee attacks look hella cool even if you can't unsee the lego legs, etc.

I would have played this more if they focused on the fighting and minimized the amount of puzzle solving and character switching (the puzzles are as easy as connect the dots, but the number and frequency in which they are shoved into your face is too much). Hell, it would have been a better game if they just made a Marvel Heroes game using the engine and took out all the Lego parts.

sorry, I was busy. to satisfy the thread title, I'm currently playing FTL. but since PCG felt like extending the discussion for some reason, that's cool too.

staying ahead of the curve is actually pretty easy. graphics performance actually doesn't scale disproportionately to system requirements. yeah, to play everything at maximum settings, you'd have to break the bank periodically. but that's well in excess of what you'd need to go toe-to-toe with either console. you forget I more or less build computers for a living. I can tell you exactly what you need to meet a particular spec, and to be honest you can scratch-build a machine that thoroughly outclasses either current-gen console for as little as $550.

or upgrade an existing one (provided it's less than six years old) to beat either platform for $250. it doesn't take much, honestly. we carry a desktop-socketed iteration of the exact APU used in both consoles, and you can buy it for sixty bucks, which is fucking chump change to pc builders. yeah, you're paying more this way, but to do what? gaming platform? home entertainment center? office machine? media server? all of those at once? anything a console can do, even a midmarket scratch-build can do better.

oh, and when I'm not playing games? (which is most of the time since I fucking live at work and when I'm home I have a two-year-old I prefer to spend my time with.) I can edit audio, edit video, upload either, work on music shit, prep for my podcast, talk shit on here, and about a dozen other things - four or five at a time if I want - that no current console can competently do. and I didn't have to buy another machine to do it. so please, resident expert pcg, tell me more about what a bad investment pc gaming is compared to consoles.

the PC platform gets a bad rap because when you say PC gaming, people almost always think of the enthusiast market, which is a very small market (they're very loud on the Internet, though.) There are a lot of people who game perfectly fine on midrange/budget builds. These days there are even people who are doing well without a discrete videocard (AMD's APUs have already made most mid-range and all low-end videocards somewhat unnecessary, and Intel's offerings have already improved by leaps and bounds.)

the problem is that as you mentioned it's a very vocal minority. I would say that a majority of PC gamers are actually not significantly above mainstream specs except for having midmarket GPUs and maybe an improved CPU or more RAM (not that those two things really impact gaming performance all that much). the console manufacturers are gonna be very quick to point out the neckbeards building $3000 rigs because it helps them play up the 'cost-effectiveness' of their own platforms. I'm lucky because I can obtain components more easily and cheaply than the average consumer, but even adjusting for that, my current system (into which I've sunk maybe $500 by this point) would only cost about $900 for most people, and it exceeds requirements (and even recommendations) for all current-gen games by a significant margin. except crysis 3. which isn't a game so much as a GPU benchmark that lets you shoot things.

Woo. Passive-aggressive AND disproportionate. Soundin' more and more like my ex-wife....

Look. I'm not discrediting PC games. In fact, I favor PC for a handful of things. My point is, I can't see a compelling argument to call either side, PC or console, "superior."

Both platforms have aspects to them that make them superior and aspects that make them inferior. It's basically subject to preference at this point.

I just butted in on the misconception that PC gaming requires thousands of dollars of investment. I have a mid-range gaming PC built for 12,000php. A brand new slim PS3 in here costs 13-15,000 php. A PS4? 27,000php. Which one is the more expensive platform now?

The PC Master Race thing shouldn't be taken seriously. It's been going on for a long time that it's basically an in-joke. Add the fact that many consoles in the last couple of gen are basically just PCs with standardized specs.

Originally Posted By: PCG342

Woo. Passive-aggressive AND disproportionate. Soundin' more and more like my ex-wife....

I had a much milder response typed out, and then I remembered it was pcg. giving you shit is immensely cathartic for me and also functions as message-board crate training for you. I'm a generous guy. if it helps, this is rob's fucking boards. we eat our own as appetizers.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

The PC Master Race thing shouldn't be taken seriously. It's been going on for a long time that it's basically an in-joke.

more or less. the vocal minority of neckbeards have collectively become such a memorable character that it's really hard to participate in nerd culture nowadays without slipping into that character to some extent. sort of a grey area in between self-deprecation and a kind of perverse pride.

The one thing I love about Sammitches posts is that I dont need to know what they are about, but if I am ever suffering from insomnia, they put me to sleep after about two lines. You should bottle that shit, Phil.

i have!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I just bought the Zone of the Enders HD Collection for PS3.

I can't actually play it since I don't have my PS3 with me, but It's going back home where I'll play it some time next year....Although, admittedly, it's more for completing a collection than it is for playing.

Wolfenstein the new order & Watch dogs

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Watch dogs

I've been having a lot of fun with this. I pretty much expected GTA with a hacking gimmick on top, which it pretty much is. I do like the added ability to use stealth and solve problems without even having to go into a building sometimes. Using the traffic hacks to catch pursuers (cops, bad guys) in a trap is pretty fun too. Having it where other players can jump into your game and try and steal from you and vice versa was an unexpectedly fun add-on too. It might wear off after a while, but it's enjoyable as hell right now.

So, it's like a better version of Sleeping Dogs?

Never played Sleeping Dogs past the first mission, so I couldn't say. Ubisoft's UPlay has been fucked up today, so there's been a lot less of the game invading going on.

IN THE ASS.

Bought Watchdogs and the Dishonored GOTY edition. Only for a blown transformer to fuck up my TV that day. Waiting on a damage claim from the electric co.

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Watch dogs

Best way I have heard it described is GTA mixed with Assassins creed.
I love it. Like many other free roam games, I am spending more time doing side missions than actually doing the storyline.
Only just finished Act 1 today because of this.
Also, as I got the Dedsec version, I have a few extra DLC to play through as well.

I just started the second Act today. I've got all the towers and a bunch of the side quests. I'm at level 26 and have almost all my hacks topped out. No need to get the last money hack as I've got $700,000 in cash and all the 5 star weapons, which I hardly ever use. I like the stealth aspect, which gives it more than GTA offers. Though GTA has the music thing worked out better. I hate the fact that the music starts new every time you get in and out of the car. A minor quibble for a great game.

There is an option to turn the music off. As most of the music does not appeal to me, I have it turned off permanently.

There's only a few that I like (the Iggy Pop & the Stooges remix, Curtis Mayfield, and Alice Cooper). It's still a shitty system either way, though.

When I saw the Alice Cooper song I was like, wtf? I mean its a great song, but what a strange choice. Its not exactly one of his big songs, and is from one of the Alice albums that tends to get ignored somewhat in the modern era (all people seem to go on about is the 70s stuff as being "cool"). Hey stoopid is one of my top Coop albums.

Completed the QR code missions last night, and really should start getting cracking with Act 2.

Also been playing some online racing when it actually works.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Also been playing some online racing when it actually works.

I'd be doing more of the online stuff if UPlay didn't suck so bad. The first day or so I was connecting pretty quickly to the online missions. Now it just sits and tries to load while not letting me do anything but drive around aimlessly most of the time.

Its hit or miss for certain. Yesterday it kept failing but today its been fine.

Started on act 2 tonight after completing all the ctos breaches and all but the last of the weapons caches (cant do the last one til later in the game apparently).

Damn, it's been a few months since I've tried to play a ubisoft game online. They still having all the "host migration" bullshit going on, too?

they're just using the host migration bullshit as an excuse to prevent PCG from playing online. It doesn't happen to anyone else now.

meh. I just know that the 3 Ubi games I recall off-hand having played a decent bit online (SC:Blacklist, Future Soldier and FarCry 3) all exhibited that aggravating quality...
Well. That, and they short-dicked splitscreen players.

You have a short dick, so shut up.
Never had a problem with SC Blacklist online or FC3, ditto for Assassins Creed. Only game that has given me any degree of annoyance with host migration in the last couple of years is NFS Rivals, and thats EA, anything else is minor by comparison.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

they're just using the host migration bullshit as an excuse to prevent PCG from playing online. It doesn't happen to anyone else now.

What he said.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Started on act 2 tonight after completing all the ctos breaches and all but the last of the weapons caches (cant do the last one til later in the game apparently).

A character in Act 2 finishes up that subplot. I also finished the serial killer and burner phone investigation series as well and opened up the human trafficking. Still having a lot of fun and only about half way through Act 2.

the weapons one and the serial killer one both happen at certain points in the game, but you can do all the ground work early in the game (the only stuff its tough to see on the map is the stuff in Pawnee as the ctos station isnt available until later in the game.
I completed the game a few days ago, and just have a few drinking games to do etc, and play some more online matches.
Problem is, I spent so long doing all the side missions early on, that Acts 2-5 all moved pretty quickly. Pretty awesome game all in all.

I'm starting to notice that as I burned through the end of ACT 2 pretty quick and now through most of 3. There are several points where you want to keep going with the main story because each campaign interlocks so well with the next.
I've pretty much gotten sick of the stopping crime bit. I'm topped out on being the citizen's fav. I only do the missions now if I need a bit of a boost after a big chase or something. Sometimes I run over people. Oddly, it's usually the cops' fault for ramming me into them.
I've also perfected my convoy stops too. One IED in the front for the lead car. One in the back for the rear car. Blow them up and then run up and knock down the target.
I'm more in the groove of playing the mini games.

My convoy stop tactic was to pick a part of the route where there is a bridge/traffic lights/bollards and use that to either stop them or take out the lead car. And if its a convoy where you can kill the target, just use the grenade launcher.

Hope there is some decent DLC at some point, as the ones I got with the Dedsec edition were fairly basic.

Is the Dedsec stuff the one you get to play as T-Bone? Because that's the only stuff I'm really seeing right now other than a new AR game.

The T-Bone dlc isnt out yet to my knowledge.
The ones I had were the Palace pack which was basically a mission where you had to infiltrate a big mansion type house, and then chase a guy down.
There was a mission to get the biometric assault rifle, which is the gun I pretty much use all the time now.
I supposedly had the breakthrough pack which had something about scramblers, but cant say I noticed it in action.

To be honest as I had them from the off, it was hard to know what was and wasnt dlc unless it was marked on the map as exclusive mission, but I think that was the dlc that all Playstation owners got and X Box/PC owners didnt.

Spent $10 on a playstation plus membership and downloaded Remember Me, Castle of Illusion, and NBA 2014 free. C.o.I. is fun, a modern take on the old sega genesis game I played as a kid. Remember Me is interesting, great design, and has a fascinating story concept. I like the concept more than the execution. The combat doesn't flow well. You're encouraged to build up combo moves to use special abilities but when you have 3 guys attacking you at once it's almost impossible because of the timing factor required. I keep finding myself mashing the square button which makes getting through battles even more difficult. I'd give the game a 7 out of 10 and I'm glad that I basically paid $3 for the game.

Playing Far Cry 4 on the brand new PS4 right now. I'm not sure I like the whole 'mountainous region' atmosphere as opposed the pacific island, but overall I'm enjoying it. What I really appreciate is that enemies don't stop patrolling the area after you've taken an outpost. There's constantly a skirmish over every horizon. The previous game had a real issue with keeping the pressure up.

I just wish they put more fucking effort into Ajay's character. He's supposed to be an innocent babe tossed into the deep end of the turbulent, totalitarian world of death and destruction--a FAR CRY from his North American bubble--and yet there's none of the shock and awe and emotional distress that accompanies killing someone (at least for the first time; Far Cry 3 was pretty good about getting that point across).

They specifically changed track with this one as far as character goes due to complaints about FC3. That is why there isnt much actually vocally from Ajay. Its also the reason there is a lot more humour in this one.
Personally I love it, and love the fact that all 3 of the FC games I have played have a totally different environment. Stops them from having that same old same old feeling that you get with the likes of Battlefield, Call of duty and numerous other franchises.

I promised myself I would not play FC4 until I finished AC Unity and The Crew, but I failed to keep that promise as I have been addicted to it for a couple of weeks now (think I have logged over 40 hours and not even completed the story yet as off finding all the posters and letters etc).

Other than those three games mentioned, I am also playing Driveclub on occasion and WWE 2k15.

I am playing the shit out of Borderlands 2. It's just as fun, and in a lot of ways superior to the original. Handsome Jack is such an evil bastard but I can't help but like the guy. I'm playing solo for now but my second play through will most likely be online coop. I want to pick up all the best loot and I know those fuckers will take all my shit

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

The first one wasn't without humor. The reality is that whiny feminist cunts and SJWs in general just felt like complaining about having the rich white guy in the game. I'd never even heard the phrase "White Messiah" used as a pejorative for an (allegedly) racially charged plot device prior to their crocodile tears of racism and "dudebro-ness."

Quote:

I promised myself I would not play FC4 until I finished AC Unity and

I never had a taste for AC's gameplay or its penchant for revisionist history, so I avoided it despite all of the GameStop staff's peculiar obsession with getting me to purchase it (even though I had a pretty sizable stack of games already).

I'm still annoyed that my PS4 and PS3 have to share a shelf--as opposed to simply consolidating all my gaming to one console. That being said, I went on a binge and bought a bundle of PS4 games that were on sale.

Killzone: Shadow Fall
Infamous
Evil Within
The Last of Us: Remastered
Grand Theft Auto 5
Watch Dogs Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Ver. (on SoM's recommendation)

The only one I've touched thus far is Far Cry 4. I'm ashamed to say that I've scrounged every last corner of southern Kyrat for all the collectibles so far. I've just met Willis (again). I love how he's so unabashedly right wing.

Been there and done that with Willis, so I wont spoil it if you are not finished with his missions yet.
So far I have every collectible except one journal which is in Mins palace, so not sure if I can get in there now or wait until the story takes me back there.

Just trying to do the last Shangrila mission, and its a total cunt.

Should be finished in the next few days.

Got a gift card for christmas, and seeing as one branch was out of the 3D blu ray of Guardians of the galaxy (and the moron bitch behind the counter kept trying to sell me the standard version instead, despite telling her I only wanted the 3D version) and the next branch didnt even stock it, I decided to pick up a used copy of Metro Redux.
I loved Last light on the PS3, so will be cool to play that again and play 2033 for the first time as it wasnt on the PS3.

btw, only one on that list you posted that I havent played is Evil within. I almost picked that up today but not sure its any good as havent heard much about it, which is always a worry.

Battlefield 4 has sucked me in yet again on the PS3.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Just trying to do the last Shangrila mission, and its a total cunt.

You weren't kidding. I've tried killing that fucking bird about two dozen times now.

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

btw, only one on that list you posted that I havent played is Evil within. I almost picked that up today but not sure its any good as havent heard much about it, which is always a worry.

I'm playing it right now.

I'm ambivalent. It's essentially Silent Hill 4 meets Call of Cthulu. The HUD and control scheme is fashioned similar to Dead Space, which is kind of annoying but not too terrible a burden.

I think what's annoyed me the most thus far is the very underdeveloped hiding system. You can fight and kill enemies, but sometimes it's not worth the effort to go after some of the more monstrous ones, so you have to hid in a closet or under a bed until you're out of their proximity. Normally this would be okay with me, but the directionality of the sound is all over the place, and I can't figure out whether they're right next to me or across the room.

Anyway, we'll see how it progresses.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Originally Posted By: Nöwheremän

Just trying to do the last Shangrila mission, and its a total cunt.

You weren't kidding. I've tried killing that fucking bird about two dozen times now.

Completed FC4 a few days ago, with just two co-op related trophies left to get the platinum.
That shangrila mission is mostly about luck. All depends on where the ground based enemies spawn and whether the tiger kills most of them for you or not. Just shoot him in the mouth two or three times when its open. He will fall to the floor. Send the tiger to him and when his mouth opens, shoot him again. You need to do this three times I think.

Finished Evil Within....Uh....It's a competent game. I was right on the money with the Silent Hill and Dead Space comparison (with some Resident Evil 4 thrown in), but I jumped the gun when I assumed a Lovecraft theme. Turned out to be something else entirely.

The graphics aren't exactly stellar, but that doesn't count against it very much--with the exception of pop-in textures of course. The white wash visuals give it the right kind of atmospheric varnish that complement its dully horrific atmosphere. The mechanics could be a little dysfunctional in close quarters at times, but aside from that, it was pretty functional.

What's far more questionable is the story. There's a shit ton of things about it that aren't making sense, and the ending barely helped. If they had provided just one or two more clues, the picture would probably be more clear. As it is, there's missing pieces. And the main character didn't even bother trying to connect the dots himself with even the briefest of monologues to help the player figure out what kind of rabbit hole he'd fallen into. At one point, he acknowledged that he was trapped inside an abstract reality dreamed up by a separate entity, but when he gets visual proof of this, he acts all stupid and says, "It can't be," essentially confusing the player all over again with regards to exactly what facts have actually been established.

Leave it to the Japanese to create a mystery thriller that relies solely on a series of inductive details that may or may not lead to a precise conclusion--the Nippon audiences love that kind of vagary for some fucking reason.

All and all, it was worth the $35 I spent on it. However, $65 would be pushing the envelope--especially considering that it's a relatively short game. It took me a couple of days to finish, but I have a feeling that I'd only need an aggregated 10-12 hours if I didn't take my time (and that's a bit of a generous estimate).

Edit: Okay, I just now read that this is apparently the first of an episodic DLC trilogy. I'm not sure if that affects the individual game positively or negatively, but I suppose it explains the lack of explanation.

So basically it should never have been a full price game in the first place if it isnt complete. The whole DLC thing is getting to be a joke these days. Even Destiny was not the full game in many respects.

Anyway, Far Cry 4 was a great game, but like so many games the ending was really "meh". Problem is, there are 3 endings (4 if you count the ending at the start of the game where it ends if you dont get up from the table), and by all accounts the best ending is the one you are least likely to choose, but even that kinda sounds like it sucks.
Still some replayability with side missions to finish (though not many as I did most of them as I played), online and co-op if I fancy helping someone else.

Started with the Metro Redux games a few days ago.
I loved Last light on the PS3, so it was kind of a no brainer to get this seeing as the first game was never on the Playstation before.
Playing 2034 now as its new to me, and is obviously set before Last light. As its pretty much identical to Last light gameplay wise, I am really enjoying it.
I cannot compare it to the original obviously, but comparing it to the PS3 Last light, it looks pretty nice. Yeah the facial animations are not fantastic, but this isnt a game initially developed for the current gen, just one tarted up for it, so I can accept that. Overall though it looks really nice. Did have a quick look at Last light, and it looks pretty similar.

I know its kind of a gripe with some people how so many games have been ported over to the new gen, but I like the fact its allowed them to breathe new life into games I have already played. Granted they did very little to make Injustice look any better, but that was a pretty looking game anyway, and we did get an extra costume or two that were not on the PS3 version. Tomb Raider I never played, so that had to be given a shot, and it was fantastic, with some amazing visuals. Sleeping dogs did look good, but because of how big the gap was between playing the PS3 and PS4 versions, I cannot say how much they improved it to be honest.
GTA V though you can certainly see the improvement in, with stuff like grass and foliage added in, and wildlife etc.
And then there is The Last Of Us. A visually stunning game on the PS3 got even prettier on the PS4.

With the exception of GTA & Last of us, it does seem though to be some strange choices of titles that have been ported over. Tomb Raider was considered a flop sales wise, as was Sleeping dogs. Metro I dont know the specifics on that, but I doubt it was a massive hit.
You would have thought that other bigger games might have got the transition first.

Uggh! Shadowfall sucked!

The visuals were gorgeous, but the game itself missed the mark and repeated the same mistakes of Killzone 3. Special ops rather than actual warfare does not suit the franchise. The whole thing felt like more of a social commentary rather than a shooter anyhow.

I firmly believe that Guerrilla are good developers, but they need to outsource their writers because the stories in the past two games have fucking SUCKED. It's such a huge shame too because they had a good idea in the Helghast, but they just keep fucking it up with the most bizarrely retarded story developments. And not to mention that they seem to shift the goal post with every iteration--three sequels, over a dozen retcons. Fuck that.

After this disappointment, I want to just skip Infamous, Watch Dogs, and Sleeping Dogs so I can go straight to Last of Us (something I know I'll like). But I'll probably stick to the order I've planned out.

Gah! That sucked!

I'm at the first moral decision in Infamous 2.

I was hoping SuckerPunch would have learned its lesson last time they handed the player nothing but loaded decisions with faulty premises, but it looks like they're retards to the end. I doubt I'll finish this shit.

Yeeeaaahhh--after the Fetch decision, I just called it quits. SuckerPunch makes a decent enough free roam (still mediocre compared to others on the market), but the whole superpowers aspect--which is admittedly well done--doesn't make up for simplistic moral decisions and a tired bigotry narrative that's more forced than X-Men. The "Bio-Terrorist" pejoratives are the crappiest attempt at sociopolitical parody I've ever seen: it's like they thought they could get away with any writing foibles as long as you made shooting cinder and neon pretty enough.

They might've gotten away with this shit if they hadn't made Delsin such a douchebag. But it's like they felt obligated to make him an SLC Punk reject spouting his own brand of street smart alternative morality and pretentious commentary on tolerance.

Playing Sleeping Dogs now. I understand why SoM compared the fighting system to Batman. I feel kind of frustrated though since I keep trying to use it like the Free-Flow system and fucking it up in the process.

I just wish Sleeping Dogs' story wasn't so linear. I wanted to defect to the Triads.

I haven't even bothered advancing the story yet. I'm having too much fun beating everyone up.

Sleeping Dogs is turning into one of those 'grow on you' games.

It's not exactly polished, but it has a lot of little details that make it really fun in an innovative sort of way.

Certainly lacking as a free roam--and as a shooter--but it's pretty damn entertaining.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I just wish Sleeping Dogs' story wasn't so linear. I wanted to defect to the Triads.

Yeaaaaaahh--definitely wanted an alternate ending. I didn't want to join the triads, but I didn't want Jiang to come out on top. The game tried to fashion her as some kind of lesser evil or good-hearted criminal, but she's just as cunty as everyone else (Big Smile Lee included).

I wanted a "Kill 'em all" option.

And, quite frankly, I didn't find Pendrel to be all that bad until they went down the 'Interpol promotion' route, effectively making Hong Kong just an afterthought to him. Frankly, the game's narrative has no right to quibble about Pendrel breaking the rules when that's essentially what Shen's been doing the entire game. As such, Shen had no right to complain when Pendrel let the 18k loose on the Sun On Yee when he was the one who refused to work with his own organization.

The game had a lot of greatness to it. However, the story was less than satisfying.

GTA 5. One of the guys so work with gave me his copy cuz he bought an Xbox one so I figured I'd play it even though I don't care for GTA and do the same thing with every GTA game. I like running over people, blowing up cop cars and doing damage. I don't even know where I am in the story line. Is there one? I don't care. BOOOOOOOM!!!!!

Still playing a fair bit of Marvel Heroes 2015. It was shit when it first launched but they fixed a lot of stuff and it's very playable now. It's even more enjoyable than Diablo 3 (even though it's basically Diablo 3 with Marvel skins.) and has a lot more shelf life - once you're done maxing the levels on all of Diablo 3's classes, that's pretty much it. Marvel Heroes comes out with new hero characters on a monthly basis so there's always a new character to learn and level.

Only downside right now is if you're heavy into lore. Lore accuracy pretty much goes out the window when you see 3 Juggernauts, Silver Surfer, Thor, and a bunch of Hulks having trouble taking down Batroc the Leaper.

Also, I found out that I don't need to spend money to get access to the exclusive costumes. Just farm in game currency for one of the cards or blender default costumes and let the luck of the draw give you the really expensive costumes.

I just got Captain Murrika's Winter Soldier costume this way.

Playing Homeworld Remastered right now. Started a Steam account just for this occasion.

UGH!! The formations don't work right and the tactics don't work at all.

Apparently, to get the kind of visual results they wanted, Gearbox completely did away with Homeworld 1's Ballistic engine and overlapped the game with the Homeworld 2 build and design. The game itself is beautiful, but the process of applying these older mechanics to a completely foreign engine has not be seamless.

Homeworld Remastered is more or less broken until Gearbox fixes everything.

Been playing Lego Batman 3 for the last couple of weeks, but just switched to The Order 1886 & Dying Light.

Just started on Dragonball Xenoverse. Bandai Namco did a better port job this time around compared to that Naruto crap that ran like ass even though it was capped at 30fps. The game has all the necessary graphics options for the Sammitch market (no fps cap, 4k support) and it's well optimized too, judging by how I'm getting smooth 60fps even on my ancient PC, with only the shadows turned down to medium.

Servers are currently being flooded so I couldn't try the multiplayer. I did manage to get in once, and saw that people are already max leveled on the first day the game was released. Not even going to bother fighting against other people online.

Single player is decent. It's basically a dragon ball rpg that finally allows you to create your own character. I made a fat pink character that shoots balls. And he wears a space age monocle.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

I made a fat pink character that shoots balls. And he wears a space age monocle.

Is it Rob from his sequel to Ball toucher?

It's not Rob. The character is very tall.

Steam just put a lot of relatively unpopular titles on sale, but it's got some really good (if a little bit old) titles thrown in the mix, and I have some funds on my Steam Wallet left over from an Internet giveaway I won months ago. I got:

Batman: Arkham Origins
Torchlight II
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: GoTY
Halo: Spartan Assault
Nail'd

Each one was selling for around 100 pesos ($1 = 42 pesos) or less. I spent the last remaining funds on Dead or Alive 5 Last Round preorder. They drove down the price and added free DLC to preorders because they missed the release date. I'm not even sure my PC can run this when it comes out, but I basically spent nothing on the games so it's still a win. Plus I heard Dead or Alive 5 is all about bouncing digital boobs.

I'm playing Rayman Legends and Donkey Kong Country (I just bought it to have it but decided to play a little and now I'm up to Kremroc Industries) and I realized the new Rayman games are better sequels to the original DKC than the new DKC games. I liked those, but they're basically the old games with better graphics and a few improvements. Rayman Legends and Origins add new mechanics to the same basic formula and it's amazing.

Rayman who loved bowling.

I'm playing Wasteland 2.

It's really pissing me off right now because I've deigned to play it on the hardest difficulty with only one party member, so I can't get anywhere.

Spent a couple of hours trying out all the games:

Batman: Arkham Origins - I know this wasn't made by the exact same people who made the two previous games, but it doesn't seem like it. It looks like Batman: Arkham City, and plays like it. I just wish the locations are more varied. I mean, I know Batman prefers working at night but it's not like he'd look out of place in a lighted area (the imaginary stages with Ra's Al Ghul in Arkham City looked real good.)

Torchlight II - I pirated this a long time ago, so me getting a legit copy was just a way of making it up to whoever lost money when I pirated stuff. It's still the same Diablo 2-inspired ARPG. I didn't like the steam punk elements. I wish they stuck to the fantasy medieval themes.

Borderlands: GOTY - haven't started yet.

Borderlands 2 - I'm still at level 5 and stuck on the 2nd main quest and just leveling up on random mobs. It's taking so long to get a decent gun and to level up. Those damn bullymongs are murdering me.

Halo: Spartan Assault - it's SMASH TV, with a Halo theme. Fun in short bursts but not something you'd enjoy playing for hours

Nail'D - it's a fun racing game, but I was disappointed because I expected a Motocross game, and it's not. The mx and ATVs all handle like racecars and everything goes at supersonic speeds. It's basically Wipeout with motocross skins.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

Batman: Arkham Origins - I know this wasn't made by the exact same people who made the two previous games, but it doesn't seem like it. It looks like Batman: Arkham City, and plays like it. I just wish the locations are more varied. I mean, I know Batman prefers working at night but it's not like he'd look out of place in a lighted area (the imaginary stages with Ra's Al Ghul in Arkham City looked real good.)

The only reason I liked that one the best is because it was just Batman and no one else, and he was acting like a total badass most of the way (like he should).

Obviously, it was going to get shitty at some point because it occupies the same universe as the others, which pressure the character to somehow be more social and eager to ask for help and have sentimental conversations about nothing.

Still, it offered the most amount of play time without Batman acting all gay and stupid. So it was the best of the three.

The ending fight with Joker was a fucking anti-climax though. Seriously, they could have handled that better.

Did you play it on PC? I haven't gotten very far yet and I keep reading about bugged/glitched points in the game like falling through floors and stuff. Did you experience any of those? or were the complaints coming from people who pirated their copies? (I remember that Asylum originally had an intentional bug with the gliding, which the devs fixed in the first patch, and all the people who complained in the forums were outed as pirates.)

Nah. I played it on PS3.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

It was bugged to fuck on all formats initially. I played it on the PS3 and had the falling through the floor bug. And what made it worse is it autosaved at the same time, so every time I respawned, I would just fall through the floor. Ended up having to download my previous days game save from the online server and play the last few hours again.

Overall I enjoyed the game, and while it was a different dev team, they used the same engine etc, so was essentially the same. The biggest issues were that it looked less polished and was riddled with bugs (which thankfully were fixed). Overall though it just lacked the quality of the main series, and kinda rehashed a lot of shit.
The silliest thing though, as with doing any prequels, is that they have to try to add things to what Batman can do, so it kinda makes him look like he gets shittier at things as he gets more experience being the Batman in this prequel has better moves and weapons than he does in the games set later.

Red Faction: Guerilla is free on Steam right now (and on sale for 70 pesos. I may get it if it's still on sale when my Steam Cards are all sold.)

It's like GTA in Mars, plus the game gives you a hammer and a bomb that you can use to make everything that is not the ground go ka-boom.

Started out getting 30-40 fps, single digits when I bring down the building, but adding -nod3d11 to the commandline boosted my fps way past 60, and the only things I lost were ambient occlusion and sun shafts. It really didn't look that much different even with the absence of those two effects.

Guerrilla was a good bit of fun. I never got around to Armageddon though.

Armageddon is also free at the time, but I didn't bother with it because it's not a sandbox game, which meant that I'd be somewhat pressured to play the story all the way through as opposed to Guerilla, where I could ignore the story and just run around doing random objectives when I have a spare half hour. I'm pretty much avoiding games that require a huge time investment these days.

Still addicted to Wasteland 2.

Seriously. I have to force myself to stop playing most of the time.

Hawken

You play as Christopher Hawken and pilot your choice of a Mech. You have 4 really weak (but serviceable) ones to choose from when you start. It runs on the Unreal source engine so it looks good, but the controls are FPS all the way instead of traditional mech/tank. It's twitch-reliant and has been criticized as just another FPS with mech skins (an accurate but unfair criticism, since there's really not much in the way of innovation when it comes to FPS these days. Majority of them are just another FPS with a different skin.)

It's free to play Mech/FPS with microtransactions, but the original company sold it to a new one and they still haven't set up the store properly, so it's pretty much free to play right now.

I started doing badly because I'm on an x360 gamepad kick (I've been having an easier time with a gamepad on Borderlands 2), but I switched back to keyboard and started actually being able to kill the enemies.

Only playing coop for now because I have no steam friends to invite, and had to rely on random matchmaking. The ones I've played with are friendly, though. There are no trash talkers and are not expecting too much when they see that I'm using the trainee Mech. It's a big contrast to when I tried Counter Strike: Global Offensive on a shop. I think the tag "Global Offensive" came from the fact that people from other parts of the globe will go out of their way to offend you because you're using the default skins.

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I'm still anticipating DoA 5: Last Round, but I'm contemplating refunding the pre-order and just using the steam credits for something else. I do want to support devs who go out of their way to try PC releases even if the products come out a little bit bugged or with poor netcode, but man. Team Ninja is really dropping the ball on this one - it's just been announced that instead of porting the PS4 versions, they're porting the PS3 and Arcade ones.

It's not so bad if it's just that, the PS3 version looks good and I couldn't care less if the number of times the character's boobs jiggle is reduced, but they also updated the minimum system requirements to an i7. There's no way my PC can handle the new sysreqs even if I tone down the details. Heck, since they're being lazy with the port, there's a huge chance that the engine will not support frameskipping so you either need to run the game fullspeed or get slow motion gameplay.

Picked up Batman: Origins again. I'm still early in the game, at Penguin's ship. I LOLed at the Electrocutioner fight. That explains why there was no info on the character and why they're pitching him as this mysterious new character made specifically for the game.

I actually spent a few seconds circling around him at the start, waiting for him to do something so that I can study his pattern. Around the 10 second mark, I just lost patience and just charged the heck out of him. And that was that.

I tried DC's Infinite Crisis since it's out of Beta now. It's vastly improved from the beta days, but it's still a MOBA so it can fuck off.

DC couldn't have picked a worse genre for their newest game. MOBAs are inherently newbie-unfriendly and the emphasis on PVP will attract the worst kind of players.

I'm doing well on one of the low/mid tier heroes, though. Superman is a nice character even if he's getting his ass kicked by a Batman holding a goddamn flashlight.

I traded in a bunch of games (Infamous, Killzone, Watch Dogs, Evil Within) for Bloodborne. Hopefully it meets the hype.

Resident Evil 2:Revelations.
Having played the first 3 installments on the PS1 and really enjoyed them,I picked this up for the PS4 since it was under $40. So far it's been ok,but I'm only about 45 minutes of gameplay into it so haven't really made much of a dent into it.

Humble Bundle has Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare included. It's part of a bundle along with Dead Space 2, Bejeweled, the first two Dragon Age games, Peggle, Command Conquer, and Mass Effect 2. Very tempted to get everything due to the extreme drop in price (You get everything if you dump more than $4.77), but the fact that it's only on Origin is holding me back.

...got nothing against Origin, mind you. I just have all of my games on Steam right now and I don't want it spread across different frontends.

Still need to get round to finishing the Order, but the Borderlands handsome collection came out a few weeks ago and been addicted to that ever since. As I had not finished the Mr Torque dlc, and never even got round to playing the Tiny Tina dlc despite downloading it, it was nice that you can import your single player game save over (I think this is a first as so far its only been online game saves that could be imported) which enabled me to pick up where I left off.
Just finished the Tina dlc the other day, so switched over to the Pre sequel to see how that is as I never bothered picking it up when it came out.

Oh, and got invited to the Planetside 2 closed beta, but so far its not impressed me and I just cannot get into it.

I've been fucking addicted to Bloodborne. Every time I start playing it, it's like the clock is laughing at me.

I'll feel like I've only played for thirty minutes. In reality, it's been almost an hour and a half.

I only have time for gaming during weekends now, but I got the Humble Bundle and have been enjoying it. I played a couple of hours of Garden Warfare, and even with just random matchmaking, I haven't encountered any of the nastyness that you normally get with other multiplayer shooters (Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive are full of angry people.)

It's casual-friendly. I'm particularly bad at competitive FPSes but I'm doing fine here, and that's while using a gamepad. I could do better when using the mouse and keyboard.

Only negative about it is there are a lot of people who leave their mic on, so you get to hear all sorts of things like the TV in their living room, their dogs barking, or even random people talking. It's worse in some cases when their mic is louder than the game's sounds.

Still, good game. Only got the Humble Bundle as a gift so it's not like I paid for it, but Garden Warfare alone is worth the price of the bundle. Peggle and Bejeweled 3 got some playtime as well. I installed Dragon Age II and played the intro fights.

I never bothered installing command and conquer because I'm not into RTSes, Medal of Honor was also ignored because it's horribly outdated (won't even do 16:19 so it will look squished on my monitor.)

I just tried Mass Effect 2, I was liking it so far until Shepard got stuck on a desk. I thought all the complaints about the game being a buggy untested mess was hyperbole.

*shrug* I never had any problems with Mass Effect 2. Then again I played the PS3 version.

It's going to get to the point soon that I won't have any time to play games for awhile, so I'm getting some time in this week while I can.

I got Project cars a few weeks ago as was addicted to that. Its about time there was a decent sim style car racer for the PS4.
Of course though that only gets an occasional look in now that The Witcher Wild Hunt is out .. fucking love this game.

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love fucking in this game.

Well you do actually get to fuck in this game .. so, yeah!

Originally Posted By: Pariah

I've played each of the mass effect games 6 or 7 times (different sexes, different personalities, and kept the same personality type for each sequel) and I never had glitches either. Did you play it on PC or console? I played mine on the 360. Mass effect 3 is great until the end. The expanded ending helped but it was still pretty fucking weak.

I played it on PC (got it via the Origin humble bundle). I searched for fixes and the PC version's buggy state is well-known, with no fixes except to save often and avoid bumping into corners too much.

It's simply a shoddy port, it doesn't even have X360 gamepad support (there is an ini hack, but the UI can't be controlled effectively without a mouse), which is weird for a 360 port. Bioware is lucky that the game is so good that people were willing to overlook the bugs.

Got Darksiders 1 and 2, but refunded them afterwards. It looks good and reminds me of the story/visuals of Diablo 2. Gameplay is remniscent of God of War and Legend of Zelda, but they went overboard with the puzzles. It's like 5 minutes of combat and 20 minutes of puzzles (platforming puzzles and timing-sensitive ones) for every level.

I've been trying to stay away from videogames, but I really REALLY wanted to play Dark Souls 3 and Uncharted 4. I bought both.

Already beat Dark Souls 3 a couple times. It's great...but I can smell the incoming DLC putting the missing pieces together with the rest of the story. That's what pissed me off about Dark Souls 2: it was an incomplete game with an incomplete story, and annoyed the hell out of me that its completeness was sold separately in the form of DLC; I should have waited fro Scholar of the First Sin instead of buying Dark Souls 2 right off the bat. I imagine though that From Software expects no one to complain about the story for the simple fact that it's vaguely told. Anyway, a lot of the third installment doesn't reconcile too well with the previous games, and I'm pretty sure they know it. And that's irritating.

Uncharted 4 on the other hand, is absolutely amazing. I'm a couple hours in and it so well nuanced visually and story-wise, it's not even funny.

Ugh....

The game was great. But it added a stupid post script at the end that served no purpose beyond inflating Neil Druckmann's over-indulgent ego and depressing the player.

Fifteen years later, he's long since settled down and made a family, thus barring off his character from further meaningful use because......I have no fucking clue. It's not as though he was going stale, so forcing him into narrative retirement for that reason is beyond overzealous. It feels like they just wanted to get rid of him for some fucking reason.

I realize that the game is as much a cinematic feature as it is a game, but that kind of soft-headed bullshit is not the reason that people play videogames.

Originally Posted By: Parieah

Ugh....

The game was great. But it added the hydromax x20 stupid post script at the end that served no purpose beyond inflating Neil Druckmann's over-indulgent ego and depressing the player.

I'm looking forward to COD ww2, I may even buy the now xbox one for it.

Iron Kill is my favorite game. I would like to play this awesome game.

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The game was great. But it https://enfinmince.fr/phenq-avis/ stupid post script at the end that served no purpose beyond inflating Neil Druckmann's over-indulgent ego and depressing the player.

We're living in the golden age of indie video games.

Originally Posted By: Pariah

Really Uncharted 4 is a nice game. I loved the game especially the complex shooting and escaping from the maze.

Replaying FF7 Remake before Rebirth comes out, otherwise I’ll play an hour of Coral Island when I want to relax.

I tried to play Kingdom Come Deliverance since it was on sale for less than $5 but I just cannot get into it. I kept hearing it was a hidden gem and a great rpg but 4 hours in and I don’t see it.