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Title: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 06, 2010, 10:45:55 AM
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved like everyday with a lil New Super Mario Bros. Wii on the side. Waitin on that there Kirby Epic Yarn shit to drop.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 06, 2010, 11:36:03 AM
Halo: Reach, Left 4 Dead 2 (Sacrifice)
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Post by: Rama on Oct 06, 2010, 12:57:41 PM
I was playing Halo: Reach, but I've been Haloed out for awhile. So I'm not playing anything.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 06, 2010, 10:45:05 PM
Whatever's on my cell phone right now. The only time I've fired up a console in the past six months was for my niece to play Donkey Kong Country on my old SNES.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 06, 2010, 10:49:45 PM
OH SHIT I FORGOT I GOT PEGGLE ON MY IPHONE
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Post by: Derrick on Oct 07, 2010, 05:51:28 AM
Some golf game on my iPhone.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 07, 2010, 12:36:45 PM
Bejeweled on FB but I'm trying to scale back.  :D
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 07, 2010, 06:44:58 PM
Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness up in this m--ff---
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 07, 2010, 06:46:17 PM
mothra framing?
mucus farming?
margaret fratcher?
mos fef?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 07, 2010, 07:50:00 PM
minerus foracilus
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Post by: IDE on Oct 13, 2010, 01:37:19 AM
WoW and all the snes games that are on my modded ps2.
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 13, 2010, 05:04:51 AM
On some Super Mario bros. 3 shit right now!
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 13, 2010, 05:42:12 AM
I cant wait for Zelda Ocarina of Time to be released on 3DS.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 13, 2010, 04:43:08 PM
Dude, 3DS is quickly becoming day one for me. Ocarina is big, BUT MEGAMAN LEGENDS 3 IS FUCKING HUGE
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Post by: blanktoe on Oct 13, 2010, 06:25:40 PM
Have they rereleased Megaman Legends? I never got to play it.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 13, 2010, 07:03:16 PM
No, you still need a PS2 to play the original games, something I am considering.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 13, 2010, 07:59:04 PM
Dude, 3DS is quickly becoming day one for me. Ocarina is big, BUT MEGAMAN LEGENDS 3 IS FUCKING HUGE
You know how much it'll cost? I wonder if i can play it on my dsi
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 13, 2010, 08:20:56 PM
3DS games will not work on DSi, but DS and DSi games are compatible with 3DS. The cost they gave in yen was around $320 USD IIRC. I think it needs to drop by a $100 at least.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Oct 13, 2010, 09:05:30 PM
FUCK. I'd buy itbut i would feel bad since i havent used the dsi that many times to make it worth it  :nono:
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 13, 2010, 09:52:54 PM
Yeah, that is how I feel, too. I still have not finished Spirit Tracks. I have not even turned my DSi on a couple of months.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 14, 2010, 12:49:52 PM
Spider-man (not the Amazing one) on Android.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 10, 2010, 07:48:01 AM
FUCKING DONKEY KONG RETURUNUSU IS COMING OUT THIS MONTH .IM SO FUCKING EXCITED YOU GUYS DONT HAVE AN IDEA.
Also I need to buy a new wii since my baka husbando gave his to his sister. IDIOT.


ps: heres the trailer with the delicious Arashi boys
feature=related
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 10, 2010, 03:29:54 PM
BAKA BAKA /Fonzie Bear

I need to get a proper TV so I can pull my Wii back out. I still need to finish Ocarina.
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Post by: Rama on Dec 10, 2010, 03:57:00 PM
I'm still playing Reach, but I took a few weeks off or not playing any game at all.
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Post by: Max Con on Dec 10, 2010, 05:24:41 PM
Finished Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.


I've been playing Reach for nearly 3 months and I AIN'T SLOWING DOWN YET.


Just bought Inclement Weather.
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 10, 2010, 05:27:53 PM
Finished Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.


I've been playing Reach for nearly 3 months and I AIN'T SLOWING DOWN YET.


Just bought Inclement Weather.

I WANT THAT.

I just have the gay fire head from Legendary. I fucking love Breakpoint.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 10, 2010, 06:51:14 PM
BAKA BAKA /Fonzie Bear

I need to get a proper TV so I can pull my Wii back out. I still need to finish Ocarina.
WTF!?!!/ THERES OCARINA OF TIME FOR THE WII?!?!??!?!?!?!
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 10, 2010, 09:41:19 PM
Yeah, on the virtual console service, but the vibration does not work (or it didn't, might now). The Gamecube discs also work on there, since the Gamecube and the Wii are identical except for disc size and input options, and the vibration is intact this way.
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Post by: Derrick on Dec 10, 2010, 09:48:34 PM
Goldeneye 007. Its multiplayer is amazing.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 10, 2010, 09:56:09 PM
I wish I had a modern console so I could play some Pac-Man CE DX. Yup...an HD console to play an HD version of a thirty year old game.

Hey, I love Pac-Man. Maybe it'll happen if I get the job I'm hoping for after the new year.

Until then, I'm making do with Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons.
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 10, 2010, 10:00:48 PM
I wish I had a modern console so I could play some Pac-Man CE DX. Yup...an HD console to play an HD version of a thirty year old game.

Hey, I love Pac-Man. Maybe it'll happen if I get the job I'm hoping for after the new year.

Until then, I'm making do with Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons.

1. Angry Birds is FUCKING AWESOME and have you seen this video:
2. I played the trial on my 360 for Pac-Man CE DX. I fully intend to purchase it at a later date. The trial was a BLAST and I normally find Pac-Man rather boring.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 11, 2010, 05:49:25 AM
Yeah, on the virtual console service, but the vibration does not work (or it didn't, might now). The Gamecube discs also work on there, since the Gamecube and the Wii are identical except for disc size and input options, and the vibration is intact this way.
Wht is the "virtual console service"???
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Post by: Max Con on Dec 11, 2010, 07:00:40 AM
You can pay Nintendo $5-$10 for emulated ports of their older titles instead of downloading a ROM with framerate, sound, and graphical improvements for free.





I WANT THAT.

I just have the gay fire head from Legendary. I fucking love Breakpoint.


It kind of hurt to buy it. I've been credit hoarding for months.
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 11, 2010, 01:48:40 PM
Yeah, on the virtual console service, but the vibration does not work (or it didn't, might now). The Gamecube discs also work on there, since the Gamecube and the Wii are identical except for disc size and input options, and the vibration is intact this way.
Wht is the "virtual console service"???

Download channel for old Nintendo games on Wii
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 11, 2010, 04:16:35 PM
1. Angry Birds is FUCKING AWESOME and have you seen this video:

Yeah, I saw it last week. What's funny is that it was an Israeli video. If any part of the world knows failed ceasefires, they would :P

2. I played the trial on my 360 for Pac-Man CE DX. I fully intend to purchase it at a later date. The trial was a BLAST and I normally find Pac-Man rather boring.

I wish they'd release it to PC.
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 11, 2010, 06:17:16 PM
That's sort of silly that they haven't other than the fact that piracy is rampant on the PC.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 11, 2010, 11:34:35 PM
I was able to play the original Pac-Man CE on my cell, but touchscreen controls are not suitable for games requiring quickness and precision.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 12, 2010, 04:36:28 AM
Merla got me the red Wii I've been coveting for X-mas.  We played New Super Mario Bros. Wii tonight, killed three Yoshis, and laughed our asses off.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 12, 2010, 05:14:52 AM
I have super mario bros por ds and it sucks ass. Do you like it?

As soon as we get the wii , we'll also be getting mario galaxy 2, mario kart and OF COURSE donkey kong
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Post by: Max Con on Dec 12, 2010, 11:27:29 AM
Don't forget to mod it!
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 12, 2010, 01:29:20 PM
I have super mario bros por ds and it sucks ass. Do you like it?

As soon as we get the wii , we'll also be getting mario galaxy 2, mario kart and OF COURSE donkey kong

New Super Mario Bros DS had it's issues, but over all was good. New Super Mario Bros Wii is fucking amazing, especially if you have people to play with you.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 12, 2010, 09:52:19 PM
I think it's dull. Isnt it pretty similar to the ds one?

Don't forget to mod it!
mod it? wat??
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Post by: blanktoe on Dec 12, 2010, 11:37:22 PM
NSMBW is similar but a lot better than the NSMB but it is a little dull compared to the awesomeness of SMB3 and SMW. Speaking of good platformers, anyone play Donkey Kong Country Returns? It's fun but really fucking hard. I rented it during Thanksgiving and only got through the first world.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 12, 2010, 11:38:19 PM
If DS emulation will ever get worth a crap, I'm going to patch that New Super Mario Bros. 3 mod and ride, boldly ride.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Max Con on Dec 13, 2010, 03:23:49 AM

mod it? wat??



The Wii is possibly the easiest console to mod, and then rob blind, ever.

Newer models can't play burnt DVDs, but loading off an external HDD is leagues better anyway.
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Post by: Derrick on Dec 13, 2010, 06:33:57 AM
...DVDs? What is this? I stream everything now.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 13, 2010, 07:05:26 AM
Max what i meant with that "wat" is that what is to mod something?

NSMBW is similar but a lot better than the NSMB but it is a little dull compared to the awesomeness of SMB3 and SMW. Speaking of good platformers, anyone play Donkey Kong Country Returns? It's fun but really fucking hard. I rented it during Thanksgiving and only got through the first world.
wat? I thought it was coming out first in Japan! its been out in the US already?
Also, FUCK YEAH SMW

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Post by: Fiero on Dec 13, 2010, 11:05:25 AM
You can pick up that Super Mario All Stars for some SMB3 action.
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Post by: blanktoe on Dec 13, 2010, 11:32:27 AM
I wish they had redone All Stars with Super Mario Galaxy graphics and maybe added a few more games to the collection.
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Post by: Max Con on Dec 13, 2010, 03:12:05 PM
Max what i meant with that "wat" is that what is to mod something?

Modification. Broad term. In the Wii's case, modding refers to installing custom firmware to allow the playback of downloaded games or the installation of custom channels/applications.


...DVDs? What is this? I stream everything now.


DVDs, in that case, referring to burnt games. Newer models won't play burnt games. Or, hell, DVD movies either. Everything must be done off of an SD card, a flash drive, or an external HDD.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 13, 2010, 06:17:07 PM
oooOOOoOOOooo
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 14, 2010, 10:18:20 PM
So I still play Halo Reach quite a lot, and I pick up MMZC and do a level here and there .. but tonight, I have been truly engrossed by the most beautiful game to grace the iPhone ... Infinity Blade.

THIS SHIT IS AWESOME
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 14, 2010, 10:30:58 PM
I wish they had redone All Stars with Super Mario Galaxy graphics and maybe added a few more games to the collection.

I wish All-Stars hadn't screwed up Super Mario Bros. 1 by letting Mario keep moving upwards when he breaks a block. But other than that, two thumbs up.
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Post by: blanktoe on Dec 15, 2010, 05:27:21 AM
I'm gonna buy All-stars at some point but not until after I get DK Jungle Beat and DKC Returns.
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 15, 2010, 04:49:28 PM
They didn't do enough nostalgia, and they really should have done the one that includes Super Mario World ... but they did not.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 15, 2010, 06:26:05 PM
I'm gonna buy All-stars at some point but not until after I get DK Jungle Beat and DKC Returns.
its RETURUNUSU
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 17, 2011, 11:39:48 PM
I finally played through that Bionic Commando update, and it really wasn't nearly as awful as everyone made it out to be, but it was definitely mediocre, especially for such an iconic Capcom character. It's weird that they put him in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 when his game was so poorly received.

I think the worst part was the uber-anti-climactic ending. Good Lord. They must have been planning it as a series, but that still doesn't excuse the final boss fight, which consisted of quicktiming a bunch of lackeys, only to defeat the big bad in a God damn pre-rendered cut scene. What the eff.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 23, 2011, 07:06:13 AM
Finally bought Mario Kart for the Wii and I'm LOVING IT. Havent gotten DK returunusu yet cause I found out the wii we have is in japanese and can only play japanese games. Which means that I would hardly understand any of the instructions for the game. FAIL
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Post by: Max Con on Jan 23, 2011, 12:19:32 PM
Playing Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.


This is the only action game in history where the enemies don't project attacks. That is annoying.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 23, 2011, 01:24:10 PM
Finally bought Mario Kart for the Wii and I'm LOVING IT. Havent gotten DK returunusu yet cause I found out the wii we have is in japanese and can only play japanese games. Which means that I would hardly understand any of the instructions for the game. FAIL

Most of DKCR's instructions are conveyed pictorially, rather than textually, so whatever language your game is in shouldn't matter. I think. It's been a few weeks since I last picked it up.

Playing Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.


This is the only action game in history where the enemies don't project attacks. That is annoying.

I'm not sure I get your meaning. Are you saying they don't really telegraph their movements? Like, their attack animations occur without warning? I seem to remember the blocking being pretty essential, much more than in other games where avoidance usually means dodging. And the timing for super blocks (that's not what it's called but you know what I mean, when you block just at the right moment and the enemy is staggered) is really forgiving.
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Post by: Max Con on Jan 23, 2011, 01:58:54 PM


I'm not sure I get your meaning. Are you saying they don't really telegraph their movements? Like, their attack animations occur without warning?

Yes. Any other game, I could predict what an enemy is going to do. I feel like I have to 1-2 punch and roll away. If nothing else, the Vampire Cross Killer seems to cover up the enemy character model quite well so my view of the enemy is actually BLOCKED. But maybe this is just my penance for playing on hard right out of the gate. Attacks really seem to hurt!

The sync block or whatever is forgiving, yeah, but I've never been much the parrying type. Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden. Always dodged, hardly ever blocked, much less parried.
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Post by: Rama on Jan 23, 2011, 09:19:18 PM
Lego Indiana Jones.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 23, 2011, 11:47:09 PM
Finally bought Mario Kart for the Wii and I'm LOVING IT. Havent gotten DK returunusu yet cause I found out the wii we have is in japanese and can only play japanese games. Which means that I would hardly understand any of the instructions for the game. FAIL

Ummm..

It's Donkey Kong, how hard can it be to understand while playing?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 24, 2011, 06:57:09 AM
My husband told me the same shit. I NEED to read whatever the hell they are saying, just in case they tell you about a trick or something you have to catch.


Most of DKCR's instructions are conveyed pictorially, rather than textually, so whatever language your game is in shouldn't matter. I think. It's been a few weeks since I last picked it up.


You have the new DK???? I'm sure they tell you important stuff you need to know!


Fuck all of this, I'm getting a wii key. How stupid it is to put a wii on regional code? fuck you nintendo, fuck you.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 24, 2011, 03:36:22 PM
Wii's are definitely the easiest console to hack. You can load all your games to an external hard drive and never have to take the discs out again.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 24, 2011, 06:51:29 PM
Yeah but the updates they get block most of the hacked stuff
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 24, 2011, 09:53:56 PM
Upgrade Complete (http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/upgrade-complete)
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 25, 2011, 01:01:07 AM
My husband told me the same shit. I NEED to read whatever the hell they are saying, just in case they tell you about a trick or something you have to catch.


Most of DKCR's instructions are conveyed pictorially, rather than textually, so whatever language your game is in shouldn't matter. I think. It's been a few weeks since I last picked it up.

You have the new DK???? I'm sure they tell you important stuff you need to know!

Fuck all of this, I'm getting a wii key. How stupid it is to put a wii on regional code? fuck you nintendo, fuck you.

The only trick I've come across so far that they don't show you how to do in a tutorial is the roll jump. If you're running and you shake the remote, you'll roll, but if you jump while you're rolling, the jump carries you way farther than it normally would. It's also useful for grabbing items that are hovering over pits, that you otherwise would have no way of getting.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 25, 2011, 12:17:32 PM
I'm still trying to play Dragon Age. I like it but I don't but I do.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 25, 2011, 06:01:58 PM

The only trick I've come across so far that they don't show you how to do in a tutorial is the roll jump. If you're running and you shake the remote, you'll roll, but if you jump while you're rolling, the jump carries you way farther than it normally would. It's also useful for grabbing items that are hovering over pits, that you otherwise would have no way of getting.
The tutorial would be in japanese :(

Hs anyone played Mario Galaxy 2? I was thinking about getting it but then I saw it came with a dvd to show you how to play. A dvd? how effing difficult can it be?  That and plus its obv in japanese.  NOPE.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 25, 2011, 08:33:02 PM
You don't need the DVD. It plays like Mario Galaxy 1.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 26, 2011, 02:37:56 PM
I don't know what else to say. Did you at least try to play Donkey Kong? It's not complicated at all. It's probably one of the least sophisticated games out there today.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 26, 2011, 08:08:31 PM

I knowwww its  not complicated at all but im sure they, at least once in a while, give you clue about how to get somee xtra thing or "hey watch for the cloud you can get X thing". I don't want to miss something :'(

You don't need the DVD. It plays like Mario Galaxy 1.
Never played it
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 26, 2011, 08:56:46 PM
Did you ever play Mario Sunshine? Mario 64?

They're all the same game.

And I just thought of something.

If you learn to read kanji... all your problems will be solved!

You're welcome.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 26, 2011, 09:45:27 PM
Did you ever play Mario Sunshine? Mario 64?

They're all the same game.

And I just thought of something.

If you learn to read kanji... all your problems will be solved!

You're welcome.

Dude, wow. This guy is really smart. We should all listen to what he has to say.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 26, 2011, 10:28:32 PM
I don't know how much fun it could be living in Japan without being able to read their squiggles anyway.

You're nothing but a dirty gaijin to those people. At least make some small effort to fit in.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 26, 2011, 11:13:09 PM
:lol:
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Post by: Max Con on Jan 27, 2011, 03:08:28 AM

I knowwww its  not complicated at all but im sure they, at least once in a while, give you clue about how to get somee xtra thing or "hey watch for the cloud you can get X thing". I don't want to miss something :'(


Have you heard of that newfangled invention, the internet? Got some crazy stuff on that there internet.


http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/997764-donkey-kong-country-returns/faqs
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 27, 2011, 06:40:22 PM
I don't know how much fun it could be living in Japan without being able to read their squiggles anyway.

You're nothing but a dirty gaijin to those people. At least make some small effort to fit in.
dude i know how to read. not all kanji but some. certainly not enough to be able to read whats on the screen and understand it completely.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 27, 2011, 06:41:11 PM

Have you heard of that newfangled invention, the internet? Got some crazy stuff on that there internet.


http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/997764-donkey-kong-country-returns/faqs

OOoOOo inneresting...
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 27, 2011, 07:57:00 PM
internets is interesting business
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 27, 2011, 08:02:59 PM
dude i know how to read. not all kanji but some. certainly not enough to be able to read whats on the screen and understand it completely.

It's my understanding that no one person knows all the hieroglyphics they use on that gloriously twisted little island.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 27, 2011, 10:09:32 PM
I think most people are familiar with hiragana and katakana, or at least one or the other anyway. I dunno. Didn't Beck study this shit?
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 28, 2011, 01:30:23 AM
I remember dear old Kawabe-sensei gleefully saying what Shwiggins said above.  I would assume that a Donkey Kong game would have some relatively simple stuff though.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 28, 2011, 04:05:36 AM
Silly guys, if you learn japanese you have to learn both, and kanjis too. It's a necessity.  For example, today I was doing my weekly visit to Harajuku and wanted a bubble tea so I went and ordered. If I wouldnt have known katakana I wouldnt have been able to order kokonutsu.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 28, 2011, 11:57:42 PM
I still have trouble with remedial Spanish. What little I know of it was learned from Sesame Street in the early eighties. But it came in handy when I had to x-ray the no hablo Ingles guy in the ER last year.

So the chances of my learning the above-mentioned hieroglyphics is nil.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 29, 2011, 12:58:29 AM
I wonder if a Spaniard cringes to hear a Mexican speak.

They say the French are like that about French-Canadians.

And I suppose the British are like that about Americans. Although that one can work both ways.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Jan 29, 2011, 01:27:17 AM
Yeah. Ask the next Brit you see to say aluminum.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 29, 2011, 01:28:42 AM
Dunno about the first, but I think the French cringe when they hear anything not French. All they hear is "surrender".

The British have no right to get uppity with us on our English. To begin with, English is a slutty language that borrows half of itself from everybody else. Add in how they bollocks it up well enough themselves, and they've got no room to whine. I mean, how do you balls something up?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 30, 2011, 06:52:56 PM
I fucking cringe with disgust when I hear the spanish accent. They sound like retards. ZZZ ZZZZZ ZZZZZ
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Derrick on Feb 07, 2011, 06:11:00 AM
Yeah. Ask the next Brit you see to say aluminum.
PEED-o-phile?
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 07, 2011, 11:31:49 AM
Who's a peed a file?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Feb 07, 2011, 06:09:26 PM
Waiting for Nintendo to announce Super Mario 3DS and New Super Mario World 3DS. Sorry I have nothing to add to the discussion. Been mostly playing Monopoly Express online http://host.exemplum.com/hasbro/monopoly_express/monopoly_express.html
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 07, 2011, 08:27:59 PM
Got a PS3.

Now playing NOTHING but DC Universe Online. WOW for super-heroes ... is that more or less nerdy than WOW?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Feb 08, 2011, 12:37:55 AM
I'd say more...cause you have to enjoy MMOs AND Comics. It's like a one-two punch.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 08, 2011, 09:20:46 PM
WOW requires you to enjoy the fantasy genre... That shit is just as dorky.,
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Feb 08, 2011, 11:32:12 PM
I still say more...even with the LARPing.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 09, 2011, 07:48:03 AM
Waiting for Nintendo to announce Super Mario 3DS and New Super Mario World 3DS. Sorry I have nothing to add to the discussion. Been mostly playing Monopoly Express online http://host.exemplum.com/hasbro/monopoly_express/monopoly_express.html
I was going to get the 3ds the same day it was coming out BUT i dont know if its going to be region locked, like the gay ass wii.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 09, 2011, 12:42:31 PM
It's already confirmed it will have a region lock. Nintendo feels this helps protect against piracy, but they aren't saying that outright. They do have other reasons.

An example of their defense: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-19-nintendo-defends-3ds-region-lock

I am getting 3DS day one for a variety of reasons. What's already been shown is enough that I must have it before the games I want come out.


There is no LARPing involved, Mr. Rama, none at all.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 09, 2011, 03:31:27 PM
I'll wait for the first hardware revision. By then there'll hopefully be enough good games available that owning a 3DS will actually be somewhat worthwhile.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 09, 2011, 04:10:41 PM
Splinter Cell and Street Fighter IV will likely keep me busy.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 10, 2011, 04:43:17 AM
It's already confirmed it will have a region lock. Nintendo feels this helps protect against piracy, but they aren't saying that outright. They do have other reasons.

An example of their defense: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-19-nintendo-defends-3ds-region-lock


Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Feb 10, 2011, 04:48:35 AM
I want to get a 3DS day one but they said at some point they'll be making a 3DS XL. So I'll probably just wait for that and the two 3D Super Mario games to come out first.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 10, 2011, 01:13:03 PM
It's already confirmed it will have a region lock. Nintendo feels this helps protect against piracy, but they aren't saying that outright. They do have other reasons.

An example of their defense: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-19-nintendo-defends-3ds-region-lock



 :laugh:
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 10, 2011, 08:13:52 PM
I forgot the 2nd reason I'm not getting it as soon as it comes out: the ugly ass colors they tend to choose for the new products. The first DSis were either black or lightblue, so I got the lightblue. Horrible choice. I'm sure they'll have ugly colors with the Ds3 too. I'm waiting for pinku
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 10, 2011, 08:57:07 PM
What's wrong with black? It's classic.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 11, 2011, 07:39:43 PM
I thought it looked boring. THe blue one looked more "fun". I must have been high on sugar or some shit to think that
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 11, 2011, 11:04:01 PM
But black goes with everything. Even our black hearts.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 11, 2011, 11:19:02 PM
And our black poo!
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 14, 2011, 05:18:08 PM
I found out the other day that they're making a 3D version of Cave Story for this thing.

I now may have to get one.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 14, 2011, 05:48:33 PM
I found out the other day that they're making a 3D version of Cave Story for this thing.

I now may have to get one.

0_0

AWESOME
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Feb 15, 2011, 10:06:44 PM
What's Cave Story?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 15, 2011, 10:50:11 PM
It's a story about caves. Duh!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Feb 15, 2011, 11:02:48 PM
Do the stalactites and the stalagmites fight each other?  To the death?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 15, 2011, 11:10:53 PM
Oh jeez, now the whole board's gone loco. Why is this happening?

Cave Story is a cool little PC game made entirely by a single Japanese man. Over the years it's been ported to the Wii and the DS, and I think that's it.

Now they're rebuilding it from the ground up for the 3DS, only they're staying entirely faithful to the original. Plus there'll probably be tons of new shit.

You should totally chell it out with your computer and your internet and whatnot.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 16, 2011, 08:06:07 AM
Is that the minecraft crap?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 16, 2011, 03:03:16 PM
Cave Story is completely unrelated to Minecraft.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 16, 2011, 03:41:50 PM
Though I would not be surprised if some maniac out there is  trying to do something from Cave Story in Minecraft.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Feb 18, 2011, 10:29:40 AM
Ok so can some breakdown just what minecraft is and why it's so fun? Is it like WOW and lego put together?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 18, 2011, 04:20:19 PM
Ok so can some breakdown just what minecraft is and why it's so fun? Is it like WOW and lego put together?

I've only played the 'classic' part, and it was pretty boring.

The people I know that have played it describe somewhat similar to what you just said.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 22, 2011, 05:16:52 AM
I've heard that you find some scary things in it. But maybe they're just high
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 23, 2011, 05:16:52 PM
I am currently playing Dead Space 2, Marvel Vs Capcom 3 and Bulletstorm.


Bulletstorm is 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand for white people. 
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 23, 2011, 05:30:17 PM
I am currently playing Dead Space 2, Marvel Vs Capcom 3 and Bulletstorm.


Bulletstorm is 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand for white people. 

I mainly pre-ordered Bulletstorm for the GOW3 beta. Now that I find out there is no co-op campaign ... I'm a little bit uninterested in it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 23, 2011, 08:37:24 PM
The single player campaign is well worth it.   Honestly, co-op really would have ruined this one.  It has a score system and you use your points to buy things which would have made co-op frustrating. 
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 23, 2011, 08:41:36 PM
That was actually their reasoning. I've just gotten so used to the co-op play. They said co-op ruined the pacing of the campaign.

I can enjoy it, though. I fucking loved Metro 2033 and it had not multiplayer of ANY sort.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 23, 2011, 10:17:22 PM
Without spoiling anything, this game has one of my favorite videogame moments of all time.  OF ALL TIME.

You walk into a Classical Music House/bar on the resort, there is beer on the table, which you can drink.  If you drink it, you get drunk and there's a cool visual effect and Grayson controls like he's drunk.  A DJ announces the classic song "Disco Inferno" and you start murdering dudes, drunk, to the real version of Disco Inferno.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 24, 2011, 01:52:20 PM
That alone is enough that I will play the campaign at least once.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 24, 2011, 01:58:48 PM
If you think that's something, Chapter 2 gives you a remote controlled robot dinosaur that breathes machine gun fire.  :guitar:
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 24, 2011, 04:19:43 PM
WTF

Okay, clearly I do not know enough about this game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 24, 2011, 09:15:34 PM
If you think that's something, Chapter 2 gives you a remote controlled robot dinosaur that breathes machine gun fire.  :guitar:

Holy crap nuggets! That sounds something like Wexler, Axe Cop's trusty T-rex-with-machine-gun-arms-and-shades-sporting steed.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Feb 25, 2011, 12:24:37 AM
Bulletstorm is 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand for white people. 

Was that supposed to remind me of this?  ;D
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 25, 2011, 12:06:46 PM
Pretty much. 

I've made several "THRILLHOUSE" jokes. 
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 25, 2011, 02:01:55 PM
Played the first act. Loving it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Feb 26, 2011, 12:26:38 PM
Anybody get a japanese 3DS?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 26, 2011, 01:15:17 PM
Yeah, we all made it into the crowd on Ellen the other day and she was giving them out for free.

Where were you, man?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Max Con on Feb 27, 2011, 03:56:08 AM
Eh, I'll give this a whirl.


(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1850/1298080406121.jpg)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 27, 2011, 11:41:27 AM
No mangoes?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 27, 2011, 07:24:52 PM
I haven't really encountered too many people playing as the Sentinel.  I have found an abundance of people playing as cheap-as-fuck Dante.  I just counter that by cornering them and spamming tenderizer with Super Skrull.  [COSBY]Heh, heh, heh...[/COSBY]
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Feb 27, 2011, 09:28:05 PM
TENDERIZER!
BURN!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 27, 2011, 10:57:40 PM
Huh...Sentinel isn't immune from dull (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DullSurprise) surprise (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dull_surprise), either (http://bonr.shwiggie.com/Smileys/default/bueno.gif)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 27, 2011, 11:11:01 PM
Time to add!
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 28, 2011, 01:03:14 AM
I've been playing Stupid Zombies lately on the Android...I'm shocked at how much fun I've been having with it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Feb 28, 2011, 02:01:16 AM
Yeah, we all made it into the crowd on Ellen the other day and she was giving them out for free.

Where were you, man?

All I got was a rock.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 28, 2011, 09:57:49 AM
Even if someone got a Japanese 3DS, that shit is region-locked, FYI.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 28, 2011, 01:00:46 PM
Migraine headaches are locked to region? Where were these things during WWII? :P
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 28, 2011, 01:39:39 PM
LOL.  I've got one of them pre-ordered anyway.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 02, 2011, 12:34:06 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/blanktoe/umu5u.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/blanktoe/t4vbj9.jpg)

Yes, I have been running around the room like a little bitch for the last half hour. I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED THIS GAME NOW!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 02, 2011, 02:22:25 PM
Oh, Nintendo. You do so enjoy making the same games over, and over, and over...
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Post by: Fiero on Mar 02, 2011, 03:24:19 PM
There is apparently some sort of conference today?

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/02/3ds-virtual-console-getting-game-gear-and-turbographx-16-games/

HOLY CRAP TURBOGRAFIX-16 and GAME GEAR GAMES!? SCORE! Bonk and Sonic Choas, fuck yeah! (I hope)

"DSiWare (and the ability to transfer DSiWare games from a DSi or DSi XL" OMFG YES!

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/02/zelda-ocarina-of-time-3ds-screens-give-us-the-water-temple-chill/ OMFG YES!

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/02/legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword-gameplay-shown-to-gdc-attendees/ OMFG YES!

Also, 3D movie trailers including Green Lantern? Cool.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 02, 2011, 04:53:41 PM
I got my 3DS pre-ordered.

I'm getting black, fruity blue is ugly as sin.  I wish that metallic red was a launch color...

I'll level with you on the ports Joe, but Nintendo does make undenyably fun sequels.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 02, 2011, 05:48:42 PM
I've never seen the levels shown in those pictures, so it looks like a new game to me.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 02, 2011, 11:23:33 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/blanktoe/umu5u.jpg)

Why does that logo have a beaver tail?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 02, 2011, 11:37:52 PM
(http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/c/c9/SMB3_RaccoonMario.jpg/480px-SMB3_RaccoonMario.jpg)

Who the fuck knows?  ;D
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 02, 2011, 11:55:51 PM
Coon Mario.

I don't know if it's stupid or offensive or both, but it IS funny. "Coon Mario".
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 03, 2011, 12:25:19 AM
Then how about:

(http://www.webtastix.co.nz/saibot/smgwhoop.png)

 ;)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 03, 2011, 04:41:47 AM
yay racism!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 03, 2011, 12:49:16 PM
(http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/c/c9/SMB3_RaccoonMario.jpg/480px-SMB3_RaccoonMario.jpg)

Who the fuck knows?  ;D

I'd buy that if it had ears too but it don't.  Maybe that o just has a massive boner.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 03, 2011, 01:21:56 PM
They call it a "Renob" in the south.  8)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 04, 2011, 01:18:23 AM
Then how about:

(http://www.webtastix.co.nz/saibot/smgwhoop.png)

 ;)
(http://bonr.shwiggie.com/Smileys/default/thisislayzar.gif)

(http://bonr.shwiggie.com/Smileys/default/shoopicon.gif)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 05, 2011, 12:29:23 AM
Anybody looking forward to MK9?  On one hand, I'm kinda disgusted at how much grosser it's gotten over the years.  On the other, it's making me want a PS3 or Xbox 360 so I can play it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 05, 2011, 01:05:29 AM
It's technically a reboot, so it's not MK9.   8)

But I've got it pre-ordered.  Day 1 purchase for me, I'll be getting the PS3 version since it has teh Kratos.   I like the fact they somewhat going back to basics, but I'm pissed they brought the run button back.  Double-tap forward, anyone?

You ought to buy a PS3, good game library, the shit doesn't break and Blu-Ray player to boot.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 05, 2011, 01:24:41 AM
OHMYGOD DO IT.

MK Night Shyamalan @ teh Sphere. It will be glorious.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Mar 05, 2011, 01:36:47 AM
I'll pick up the new MK at some point, but only after it drops down in price.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 05, 2011, 07:32:59 PM
I like the fact they somewhat going back to basics, but I'm pissed they brought the run button back.  Double-tap forward, anyone?

Really? I thought I read otherwise.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 05, 2011, 07:36:48 PM
And considering Raiden receives a message from himself in Armageddon, it's not a complete reboot.  More like a retread.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 06, 2011, 02:00:34 AM
Botha consoless ahave a good libraryo of mgames it realluuuj ust dependsas on what aexclusive bagmes wyaou want.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 06, 2011, 05:54:28 PM
And considering Raiden receives a message from himself in Armageddon, it's not a complete reboot.  More like a retread.

Never played Arageddon, actually.  It came out right when I sold my original Xbox for the 360 and was never made backwards compatible.  I remember Dantbert/MegatronYes blowing copius amounts of load over it.   I did play and still own MK vs DC, which was actually decent.

Botha consoless ahave a good libraryo of mgames it realluuuj ust dependsas on what aexclusive bagmes wyaou want.

Wise words drunky, wise words.  I still think a PS3 would suit Beck better.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 06, 2011, 09:37:16 PM
Ha ha, I didn't word my post quite right.  Here, I'll just steal a quote posted in Wikipedia:  

Quote
The story begins with Raiden, just when he is about to be killed by Shao Kahn in the events that happen after Armageddon. In a last effort, he sends a message to himself in the past, in the era of "Mortal Kombat", the first game. The rest of the story follows that Raiden's past and shows him trying to understand the visions and messages he gets from himself in the future and trying to prevent the events that lead to destruction of all realities.
 
Ergo, not a boot because they're doing a sort of "Back to the Future"/Chrono Trigger thingamob with the events that happened in previous games... memadoggle.  Not that what I was referencing happened in Armageddon, the actual game, itself.



I think I'd be better off w/ a PS3, too.  Since I could play my PS games on it.  Or I guess some of them anyway.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 06, 2011, 10:21:08 PM
I don't think the ps3 slim is backwards compatible...but I could be wrong.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 06, 2011, 10:47:46 PM
There are PSX games people still want to play?
(http://www.shwiggie.com/boards/inconceivable.jpg)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 06, 2011, 10:52:03 PM
They still sell PlayStation games as downloadables, so I assume the disc-based versions function just as well.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 06, 2011, 11:50:05 PM
As a PS3 slim owner, I can confirm that it still plays PS1 games off the disc.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 06, 2011, 11:58:09 PM
I just tested a few.

And they worked.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 07, 2011, 12:02:33 AM
Quote
I'd buy that if it had ears too but it don't.  Maybe that o just has a massive boner.

Happy now, Beck?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 08, 2011, 02:12:18 PM
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 09, 2011, 01:01:14 PM
Quote
I'd buy that if it had ears too but it don't.  Maybe that o just has a massive boner.

Happy now, Beck?

No. ;D


The title made me laugh but the rest of it made me meh.  Not what I expected from something called Super Hornio Brothers.  Not at all.  :nono:
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 27, 2011, 11:11:22 PM
Got my 3DS today along with PilotWings, Super Street Fighter IV, Super Scribblenauts (which is a regluar DS game) and a friend gave me a copy of Castlevania Portrait of Ruin.

Really enjoying the new hardware and really having a blast with it all.  The AR Games and Face Raiders, which are built into the hardware itself are both really, really fun.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 27, 2011, 11:14:59 PM
I cancelled my preorder Friday. I decided to wait till May.Maybe they'll having something worth playing on the eshop by then. So i bought Punch-Out, DKC Returns and New Play Pikmin instead.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 27, 2011, 11:58:15 PM
Personally, I'm glad to have the purchase out of the way.  I'm probably going to finally get around to playing Spirit Tracks now too.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Mar 28, 2011, 02:26:18 AM
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Wii sports
and
Super Mario Bros. All Stars.

Been alternating between those three.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 28, 2011, 03:30:56 PM
Personally, I'm glad to have the purchase out of the way.  I'm probably going to finally get around to playing Spirit Tracks now too.

I sold my copy of Spirit Tracks without finishing it. I'll have to get it again sometime later.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: gwynn on Mar 28, 2011, 11:40:40 PM
I've been off and on playing the same games on my DS which are Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ and Summon Night Twin Age.
I'll beat them sometime in the next century.
Also been playing Teen Titans for the Gamecube with my g/f. She likes the TT.
Hoping to get Ys Seven for the PSP for my b/day coming up soon.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 29, 2011, 03:25:30 AM
Also been playing Teen Titans for the Gamecube with my g/f. She likes the TT.

Your girlfriend is cool.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: gwynn on Mar 29, 2011, 07:27:38 AM
Thankfully. She is a complete noob as far as gaming is concerned.
Great at chess, great at anything athletic, great in the sack, literally brilliant, but never played a video game.
It's a conundrum.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Mar 29, 2011, 11:25:46 AM
She does you right and can't beat you at VGs...I don't see the problem.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 29, 2011, 11:44:05 AM
She does you right and can't beat you at VGs...I don't see the problem.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Mar 29, 2011, 11:51:07 AM
Pokemon White is the main game I'm playing now.  I'm also dabbling a bit in Nintendogs and Super Street Fighter IV on the 3DS.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Mar 29, 2011, 01:00:39 PM
Yeah we still need to play SSFIV online.  Funny how it's easier to connect to games in a fucking handheld game than it is in the console version of MvC3.

I'm also playing Crysis 2 on the 360, which is pretty neat.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Mar 30, 2011, 10:56:36 PM
Still playing WoW.  Kind of sick of it though.  I don't play as much as I used to but I'm still famous on the server for being the only arrest in the history of blizzcon.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 31, 2011, 06:37:36 PM
I reordered a 3DS from Amazon. It should be here Saturday. Now I just need to find something to play on it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 31, 2011, 06:56:23 PM
May the Force be with you.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Mar 31, 2011, 07:20:42 PM
no thanx.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 01, 2011, 08:42:25 AM
Playing this new Italian Sailor Moon DS game. It's pretty much horrible...
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 01, 2011, 02:29:22 PM
I reordered a 3DS from Amazon. It should be here Saturday. Now I just need to find something to play on it.

Pilotwings.  Although the pre-loaded software is pretty great.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 02, 2011, 04:16:25 PM
3DS GET!!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 03, 2011, 12:15:08 AM
Is it everything you'd hoped and dreamed?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 03, 2011, 02:04:17 AM
The 3D is just ok but the preloaded software on this thing is pretty fucking cool. I've been playing with the shooting mini-game in the music player for hours.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 03, 2011, 02:29:22 AM
Well, as long as you're happy with it, then I'm happy for you.

If you want a good, old-fashioned DS game to play on it, I recommend Monster Tale.

Unless you already have it, of course.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 04, 2011, 09:41:05 AM
WTF'SAMONSTERTALE?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 04, 2011, 11:20:01 AM
I have been putting in some time on the Wii fit lately. For anyone that's never played this game this is pretty much how it goes:

Wii: Oh welcome back. Too busy to work out yesterday huh fat ass?
Me: Uh, well I was busy.
Wii: Yeah whatever porky. So let's take your body test...oh look your BMI is up .3. Why is that? Tell me! (it really does make you tell it.) Too busy stuffing your face with Pie?
Me: NO! I don't know why it was up O.K.
Wii: You know you're suppose to be 157 lbs.
Me: That seems awful thin for my height and body type.
Wii: Not if you want to be pretty it's not!
Me: Just I'd rather be more 180.
Wii: *Smack* Don't you back talk me cow!
Me: I'm sorry...You're right. 157lbs.
Wii: That's better. You know I love you baby...it's for your own good. Now let's get started.

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 04, 2011, 03:48:09 PM
How tall are you?

If you don't mind telling us.

I always thought you and I were about the same height, and I weigh 180 right now. If I weighed 160, I would look like Death. I've got a bit of a paunch, but it sure as hell ain't 20 lbs. worth.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 05, 2011, 12:52:06 AM
5'-11"/6' It kinda depends on where I'm measured. But I was 160lbs in High School and I did look like death. And I'm topping about 212 at the moment and I was much happier at 180.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 05, 2011, 01:15:45 PM
5'-11"/6' It kinda depends on where I'm measured. But I was 160lbs in High School and I did look like death. And I'm topping about 212 at the moment and I was much happier at 180.

Right with you, brah.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 05, 2011, 02:15:46 PM
I think when I found out I was over 200 that was my wake up call and decided to start working out a lot, problem was that it is hard for me to get into a pattern and keep it up. I'll be Gung Ho about something for like 2 weeks and usually push myself way to hard, then just stop. So when I got the Wii, I just did a bundle with the Wii fit. Only cost me 250, where as it would have been 300 in the store. So far the only thing the Wii fit has done has increased my endurance.

Thing is 212 isn't me like comic book guy fat, it's really not that bad. I just don't want to weigh more then 200lbs unless it is all muscle.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 05, 2011, 03:47:06 PM
I'll be Gung Ho about something for like 2 weeks and usually push myself way to hard,
.

2 days, not pushing hard at all, might not even go to the gym, FML
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Apr 05, 2011, 11:41:05 PM
Looks like there was another sale on implants this year.

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 05, 2011, 11:57:19 PM
Uh... what? Don't all breasts look like that naturally? I think you've been confused by all the women who've elected to undergo reduction surgery.

That's the only rational explanation I can think of anyway.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Apr 06, 2011, 12:41:41 AM
Or maybe it has to do with being around women that aren't the after-shot of Victoria Beckham?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 06, 2011, 12:44:35 AM
Actually, in the demo, Mileena's boobs even behave like they're fake. Rock solid. No movement whatsoever.

So at least they're going for accuracy.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 06, 2011, 12:55:08 AM
Those are small compared to the ones they dished out in Mortal Kombat vs. D.C.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 06, 2011, 03:06:42 PM
And that was rated T for Teen!

So for whatever reason, I picked up Lego St*r WarzzZZ III for the 3DS and I'm actually kinda enjoying it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 06, 2011, 03:25:24 PM
Man... :laugh:

Do you also have all three versions of Nintendogs + Cats?  :raiseeyebrow:

I've been playing WWE All Stars, and it is fun as fuck. It's even prompted me to try to get back into the shows, but I don't know how long that'll last.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 06, 2011, 07:13:28 PM
The Lego St*r WarzzZZ games are all awesome.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 06, 2011, 08:01:16 PM
Granted, these are all slutty Outworld chicks, with the exception of the slutty Earthling.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 06, 2011, 10:00:18 PM
Man... :laugh:

Do you also have all three versions of Nintendogs + Cats?  :raiseeyebrow:

I've been playing WWE All Stars, and it is fun as fuck. It's even prompted me to try to get back into the shows, but I don't know how long that'll last.


FUCK.  NO.

I will probably pick up WWE AllStars this weekend though.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 06, 2011, 10:10:00 PM
Allstars does look good.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 06, 2011, 10:29:40 PM
There is a demo, it's pretty fun. 

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 06, 2011, 11:33:04 PM
The online is full of rage quitters, and everyone on mic whines incessantly.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 07, 2011, 10:58:36 AM
I'm actually planning on buying the game to play at home with friends.  Something I sadly don't do often enough.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 07, 2011, 03:29:40 PM
Well, outside of holidays and family gatherings, it can be tough to get a bunch of people together in the same place just so they can goof off for a few hours. People be busy and shiaaaaaa.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 10, 2011, 12:52:16 AM
Picked it up this evening and I'm enjoying it. 

I have some minor gripes, some of the mechanics bug me; cage matches feel almost broken, hit detection and reversals are wimpy at times and the magnetic jumps from the ropes are just fucking weird--oh and the load times are odd and terrible (load, first entrance, load, second entrance, long ass load, match?!).  None of that, oddly, breaks the game nor does it stop it from being fun.

Planning on taking the game over to a friend's tomorrow.  Half of me is afraid that if I play online, I'll run into some redneck who's all about John Cena and I'm just not ready for that shit...
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 10, 2011, 02:25:01 AM
Once you've seen all the entrances once, it's best to just turn them right off in the options.

The fact that that is an option says a lot about the load times, and the development team's obvious awareness of them.

Why is there no full install? Maybe it's just inherently bad design, because I don't think the loads on the demo were all that shit hot either.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 10, 2011, 10:50:18 AM
If they focused on gameplay and didn't have enough focus left for load times, then I'm probably okay with that, if the gameplay is good. I still haven't tried the demo.

I'm trying to play the Heroclix Online Beta, but no one seems to be on when I am, so that's not working out so far.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Apr 10, 2011, 02:48:29 PM
I've been playing capcom classics vol 1. 

I want that allstars game too.  I need to get good at the game first then I'm gonna get online and make people rage quit by calling them fat shits and talking about how much better I am than them IRL while simultaneously owning them at the game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 11, 2011, 12:21:23 AM
I've decided most rage quits aren't actually that. There's an achievement for winning 10 consecutive matches online, but if you quit out after losing, but before the stats screen, the match doesn't count.

So I'm guessing most people are just trying to cheese that achievement.

It's still a pissy thing to do, but I get it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 13, 2011, 05:14:50 PM
I've been playing the fuck out of Donkey Kong Country Returns. DKCR is by far the best fucking platformer on the wii. NSMBWii aint got shit on this game. They should really let Retro make the next 2-D Mario. Fuck they should let them dudes do anything. I guess I need to give Metriod Prime a second chance.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 13, 2011, 06:08:36 PM
Super Mario Galaxy
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 13, 2011, 06:09:18 PM
good choice!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 13, 2011, 09:14:07 PM
Just bought a PS3 with Modern Warfare 2, Transformers WfC, and NCAA Football '10.

Watch as I use the PS3 primarily for Netflix streaming.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 13, 2011, 09:21:21 PM
Just bought a PS3 with Modern Warfare 2, Transformers WfC, and NCAA Football '10.

Watch as I use the PS3 primarily for Netflix streaming.

I like the 360 Netflix app more, but they both have their strengths.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 13, 2011, 10:11:25 PM
What's the difference?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 13, 2011, 10:13:39 PM
What's the difference?

Layout, mostly. Though on the 360 you don't always have a 'recommended based on blah blah blah' playlist. It shows up part of the time only. On the PS3 there are subcategories and there is a recommended for you inside of some of the categories.

I also like the 360 video controls and text entry for search. more (or I might just be more used to them).
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 14, 2011, 01:36:04 AM
I tried Netflix on my PS3, and the bitrate was, how shall I put it? Less than adequate.

Whether that's a symptom of my location, my bandwidth, or my expectations, I cannot say.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 17, 2011, 08:57:22 AM
So they'll be releasing Zelda for 3ds around June. Now I dont know if I should get a jap 3ds or an american one. And just to play one game? why cant they just make zelda available for dsi too, damnit
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 17, 2011, 10:56:24 AM
Because it's not powerful enough to do what they want to do with it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 17, 2011, 05:55:04 PM
I bought my 3DS just to play one game. why can't you?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 18, 2011, 01:44:11 AM
I bought my Dsi just so i could play Mario World with it. Baby, just wait.

Because it's not powerful enough to do what they want to do with it.
That's what he said olololo
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 20, 2011, 02:09:59 PM
Portal 2 and MK.

Portal 2 was over-hyped and overrated.  I beat it in a sitting.

MK on the other hand is GREAT.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 21, 2011, 06:49:03 AM
I'm dying to play the RDR undead game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 21, 2011, 08:03:21 AM
Final Fantasy IV complete, mofos!  Does this mean I can throw away my Wii?  This game is great.  Keeps all the classic gameplay with improved graphics.  Curious to see if they'll keep any of the GBA changes in the end game.

They kept the "You spoony bard" line...
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 21, 2011, 09:50:33 AM
I thought about getting MK for old time's sake. But I haven't played three of the games I've already bought, so I'll just wait awhile...maybe it'll go to classic pricing by the time I get to it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Apr 21, 2011, 06:32:27 PM
Portal 2 was over-hyped and overrated.  I beat it in a sitting.

So I don't have to feel bad about not wanting to play it?

What do you guys think of the Wii2 rumors? Everything I'm reading sounds cool, I just hope they have some good launch titles. And maybe an option to transfer your wiiware and vc games.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 21, 2011, 08:40:28 PM
They're saying that eventually their giving that option to DSi + 3DS owners (for moving from the DSi, not the other way). I can hope they'll do the same for the Wii.

I'm curious if we'll have something like that whenever Microsoft chooses to bring a new system. All the money I've spent on XBLA and DLC ...

Ditto for Sony, but I haven't spent much there.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 22, 2011, 10:36:24 PM
Portal 2 was over-hyped and overrated.  I beat it in a sitting.

What was wrong with it?

In any event, I celebrated the release of Portal 2 by buying Portal 1. At the rate I'm going, I should get to play it in about 8 months.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 23, 2011, 08:49:39 AM
Portal 2 was over-hyped and overrated.  I beat it in a sitting.

What was wrong with it?

In any event, I celebrated the release of Portal 2 by buying Portal 1. At the rate I'm going, I should get to play it in about 8 months.

My guess is he allowed himself to become way too excited about it and it didn't meet his overinflated expectations, and it also wasn't nearly long enough to warrant a full-priced purchase, so in the end he strongly disagrees with all the critical praise the game has been receiving.

I haven't played the game yet myself, but I liked the first game even if I've never been a part of the ridiculous cult that sprung up around it, so I expect I'll be able to enjoy Portal 2 just fine.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on Apr 23, 2011, 11:21:32 AM
As I said on another board, I managed to beat both the single player and co-op in two sittings.  

While I liked what a played, while I really enjoyed the story, writing and humor, I thought that the game was too short and too easy.  The fact that you are very limited to what you can and cannot shoot portals on greatly cuts back on experimentation and challenge--not to mention fun.  I think the co-op portion of the game is better from a design stand-point at the very least.  Sadly the co-op is over too soon and many of the elements I had a lot fun with, like the gels, are barely used up until the endgame.  

Don't get me wrong, this is a good game, but not great.  It's a victim of hype and pricing.  I'm glad I was able to snag the game for $45 from Best Buy (with a $10 giftcard to boot) because otherwise I'd be feeling ripped off.  Here's hoping that the user created levels on the PC/PS3 can breathe some longevity into this one...
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Extra Zero on May 01, 2011, 11:35:28 PM
So did I spoil this shit for anyone? 

I'm still playing Mortal Kombat, even with the damn PSN down, there is A LOT of shit to do in this game.  Hopefully I'll have it wrapped up before OoT comes out. 
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Max Con on May 02, 2011, 08:10:25 PM
portal 2 is a rental


literally no reason to own this game
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 02, 2011, 08:34:53 PM
Portal 2 is $35 on Amazon right now.  (http://www.amazon.com/Portal-2-Playstation-3/dp/B003O6E3C8)

Sadly the original Portal gave me an intense headache yesterday, so my FPS gaming is on hiatus for the time being.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 02, 2011, 09:50:45 PM
Gears 3 Beta.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: The D on May 03, 2011, 05:02:06 PM
Portal 2, mothafuckas.

I'm almost done with the single player campaign. This game is awesome.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: The D on May 03, 2011, 05:22:27 PM
Is that fucking Ron Jeremy as Mario. God damn I am dissapoint.

Portal 2 was over-hyped and overrated.  I beat it in a sitting.
U MAD BRO?

I'll agree that portal 2, while longer than the first one, is a bit too short for my tastes. But I still enjoyed it.

Then again, I didn't pay $50+ for it. So maybe that helped.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 05, 2011, 07:21:23 PM
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/52780/green-lantern-rise-of-the-manhunters-hands-on-preview/?quality=hd#video-52205

That actually looks pretty good!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: spooie on May 14, 2011, 03:19:38 PM
Now that PSN is dead and I have no way to play Warhawk, I was forced to pick up a new game for the first time since last August.   Played through ODST and had a few batches of Halo 3's pathetic online mode.  Now I'm working on Halo Reach, which actually has a fairly decent online mode except for when every ass clown on there picks BTB Sniper shit.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 15, 2011, 10:25:32 AM
PSN is back up now.

Snipers can either be balls or spectacular.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: spooie on May 15, 2011, 10:45:27 AM
I've read that only certain games and features are up.  Apparently, some servers are still being turned back on and the PSN store is still down?  At least, as of 6am that was what I had heard.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: spooie on May 15, 2011, 05:53:25 PM
Maybe in the next 5 years, Sony can make the required system update they put out every 2 weeks take less an 50 minutes to actually download 3 megs of data.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 16, 2011, 04:36:44 PM
Probably not.

I was told all games should be working but PSN Store is down.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: spooie on May 16, 2011, 06:54:12 PM
I can actually get on tonight.  yip-pee.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 16, 2011, 08:45:58 PM
The Store is still down, and I'm pissed. I got a PS3 (two days before the damn PSN went down, I might add) for the BluRay player with the media center, but I also wanted a free networking setup (I'm not paying fees to use something that should be free, I don't care how well Xbox Live does it) and downloadable games (primarily the Pacman Championship Editions and a re-release of Chrono Trigger...every console needs CT on it).

So I remain Pacman-less. Sons of Bitches!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Bad Ass Pac Man on May 16, 2011, 11:36:42 PM
So I remain Pacman-less.

Unacceptable!   :mad:
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on May 17, 2011, 01:12:08 PM
hey, Pac, your new game looks awesome!

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/06/pac-man-and-galaga-dimensions-two-newest-games-in-screens/
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on May 17, 2011, 02:04:17 PM
Huh.

Not according to Webster's definition of the word.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on May 17, 2011, 04:19:15 PM
Whatca talking about Willis...


No wait, that's the other guy.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 19, 2011, 12:37:54 AM
a re-release of Chrono Trigger...every console needs CT on it).

Holy crap.  I read your post and CT just became available in the Wii Store.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 19, 2011, 03:54:43 PM
And then PSN went back down again because another exploit was found almost immediately. Hooray!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 19, 2011, 09:17:15 PM
Looks like I may be trading in that fucking PS3 for an Xbox soon. Hate I bought so many games for it now. Luckily all the ones I bought are on Xbox, too.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 30, 2011, 09:10:29 AM
And then PSN went back down again because another exploit was found almost immediately. Hooray!
Hey Fierito did you end up getting the 3Ds?? If so, reviews plox
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 31, 2011, 11:09:44 AM
And then PSN went back down again because another exploit was found almost immediately. Hooray!
Hey Fierito did you end up getting the 3Ds?? If so, reviews plox

Is too much moneys for me right now. I really, really want one. My apartment mate said the other day that he was dissapointed none of us have gotten one yet.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on May 31, 2011, 01:59:48 PM
Over the weekend I was invited to be a fourth in a game of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. We got all the way to Yellowjacket without dying and then we all died and found out that no one had been saving and thus lost all of it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 31, 2011, 03:08:45 PM
Over the weekend I was invited to be a fourth in a game of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. We got all the way to Yellowjacket without dying and then we all died and found out that no one had been saving and thus lost all of it.

OMFG

THAT IS EPIC
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on May 31, 2011, 05:43:16 PM
Yeah. We kinda gave up after that. We almost all died fighting the Tinkerer, but one of us lived and was able to take him down. I almost wish we had died then cause we would have known we weren't saving and fixed the problem early on. Of course we lost a man (he had to take off) and the other two guys I was playing with were using Thor and Hulk...I was Spider-Man. They just started trying to deal out their massive moves on Yellow Jacket as soon as the fight started. Me I jumped around and dodged in a very Spider-Man way. So of course I was the last one left alive. I was going alright, but I just couldn't deal out the kinda damage it would take to kill him. Of course the guys that could have were already dead.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 01, 2011, 09:04:38 AM

Is too much moneys for me right now. I really, really want one. My apartment mate said the other day that he was dissapointed none of us have gotten one yet.
For how much are they selling it in the US? I don't want to get it here cause I would only be able to play japanese games :(
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 01, 2011, 12:49:40 PM
About $250.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 02, 2011, 08:18:39 PM
If you do get one faye, wait till christmas time. The price should drop around then.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 02, 2011, 11:20:38 PM
I don't know, man. A price drop in the same year it's released? I'm gonna say that's not happening.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 03, 2011, 01:36:49 PM
maybe but Nintendo needs to something to get people to start buying it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: spooie on Jun 03, 2011, 09:08:49 PM
I'm downloading Wipeout HD plus Fury after the 89 billionth try.  Dunno whether the next free game should be Super Stardust HD or Dead Nation.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 03, 2011, 11:37:02 PM
I'm downloading Wipeout HD plus Fury after the 89 billionth try.  Dunno whether the next free game should be Super Stardust HD or Dead Nation.

I need to do that, too.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 04, 2011, 01:26:19 AM
Dude, you gotta be patient. This is PSN we're talking about here. She is fragile, and you must be gentle or she will break.

Seriously though, the store is so borked right now. Error messages out the wazoo. Like I said, you can get to stuff with a little patience, but dayum, son. Dayum.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: spooie on Jun 04, 2011, 08:17:09 PM
To be fair, PSN was broke before it was launched.   It's kind of like the PSP Go's marketing strategy.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 04, 2011, 09:17:33 PM
I got Pacman CE DX. I don't care if the whole damn thing dies at this point.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 04, 2011, 11:28:57 PM
Why couldn't that have been one of the Welcome Back, Kotter promotions?

I guess because Sony doesn't own Pac-Man. But still!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 06, 2011, 09:31:51 PM
BTW, I selected the two Welcome Back games I wanted, and they wouldn't download, and I can't reselect them, either.

Fucking Sony. Even when they finally seem to win, they manage to fail miserably.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 06, 2011, 09:57:32 PM
BTW, I selected the two Welcome Back games I wanted, and they wouldn't download, and I can't reselect them, either.

Fucking Sony. Even when they finally seem to win, they manage to fail miserably.

My room mate had issues, he had to go back to a different screen or something. He said it was really confusing and not intuitive at all.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 07, 2011, 02:40:34 AM
Ha! Yeah, I had that problem, and so did a friend of mine. I'm willing to bet a lot of people did!

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If at any point you can’t find the ‘Welcome Back Free Game 1 or 2’ products, the list of available titles or a game you’ve selected, go to your XMB>PlayStation Network>Account Management>Transaction Management>Services List>SCEA Promotions to complete the process.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 07, 2011, 04:46:27 AM
The PS Vita is dope and yes, this dope is gonna drop $250 on another handheld just to play one game!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 07, 2011, 12:15:09 PM
They are throwing down against Nintendo with that. Touch screen and rear touch controls, dual sticks, supposedly able to play PS3 level graphics. How can you not like the sound of all that?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 13, 2011, 10:06:31 AM
Magic on a fucking stick indeed. Speaking of E3, The show seemed pretty boring this year. The Wii U needs to go back to the drawing board. No doubt I'm buying it day one but I really dont like what I've seen and heard about it so far. I like what i'm seeing from PS Vita so far but i've only seen one game worth playing on it so far. The game I most looking forward to seeing, Super Mario 3DS, looks dull. You can't fly with the tanooki suit and  the camera zoomed in too close. The only game at this years show that tickled my tit was Bioshock Infinite
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 20, 2011, 12:14:32 PM
BOOOOOMERANG SUIT!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/NintendoWorldReport#p/u/1/ys4VSogO-Lo
I'm so fucking hyped for Super Mario 3DLand! I wish they had put it on the wii or saved it for the wii u but oh well. I also hyped for Saint Row the Third. My only problem is I don't know what system i should get it on. If the ps3 version I play it on my HDtv but if i get the 360 version I  play co-op but I have to play it on my SD tv. Life is hard!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 20, 2011, 02:04:58 PM
Super Mario 3D Land looks like a reheated turd.

Why can't you play Saints Row co-op on your PS3?

Why can't you hook your Xbox into your HD?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 20, 2011, 03:00:57 PM
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Super Mario 3D Land looks like a reheated turd.
Fuck you and your opinion.

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Why can't you play Saints Row co-op on your PS3?
My Ps3 buddies probably aren't going to buy it.

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Why can't you hook your Xbox into your HD?
I'd rather keep it in my room so I can play Boogie Bunnies or Geometry Wars before I go to sleep.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Oct 20, 2011, 04:33:41 PM
Super Mario is nothing if not an endless amount of rehashing the concepts over again...

But it works, because they change enough that it really works, and sometimes they seem to change it completely but really they hold on to the core of it.

I love all Mario games.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 20, 2011, 08:48:16 PM
Picked up Arkham City this week, but haven't quite finished Arkham Asylum.

Yeah, I know it's been out for two years already. Shut up!

Anyway, yeah. Hopefully I'll have time to start it tomorrow night :(
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 20, 2011, 10:04:31 PM
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Super Mario 3D Land looks like a reheated turd.
Fuck you and your opinion.

Don't be hatin' when I spit the truth, broseph.

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Why can't you play Saints Row co-op on your PS3?
My Ps3 buddies probably aren't going to buy it.

I'll be your PS3 buddy. :-*
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 21, 2011, 12:01:21 AM
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I'll be your PS3 buddy. :-*

<--Hit me up next time your on.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 21, 2011, 12:07:02 AM
Fuckin' A. What games you gots?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 21, 2011, 12:29:49 AM
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I'll be your PS3 buddy. :-*

<--Hit me up next time your on. :-*

Fixed.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Oct 21, 2011, 01:55:29 AM
Not a huge fan of 3d mario games but I do like them.

I still need to play that 2d one they made not so long ago that was co-op.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 21, 2011, 05:02:10 AM
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I'll be your PS3 buddy. :-*

<--Hit me up next time your on. :-*

Fixed.
you mad boo boo?


Not a huge fan of 3d mario games but I do like them.

I still need to play that 2d one they made not so long ago that was co-op.

NSMBWii is pretty good but it's probably my least favorite Mario game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 21, 2011, 07:48:24 AM
NSMBWii is pretty good but it's probably my least favorite Mario game.
I hated that game.  I think after playing it I didn't turn on my Wii for the calendar year of 2010.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Oct 21, 2011, 11:50:22 AM
I enjoyed the fuck out of that game.

But one of my room mates insists that he can't beat it without  co-op partner.

I looked at him as if he just shat out of his mouth and pissed out of his ears.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Oct 21, 2011, 12:20:38 PM
Mario Kart Wii. I could play this game all day and all night, but alas I borrowed this game so I can't do that. I do hate the bikes though.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Oct 21, 2011, 01:41:01 PM
Mario Kart Wii. I could play this game all day and all night, but alas I borrowed this game so I can't do that. I do hate the bikes though.

The bikes are strange. I got used to them after awhile.

I do think that is the best Mario Kart game since 64 (though I have not played the GBA one, my room mate said it was really good).
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 21, 2011, 02:10:31 PM
Yeah... something tells me the GBA one is not a contender.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 21, 2011, 05:03:53 PM
 Mario Kart DS is the best one imo. Karts seem to move faster in that version. I take that back I liked the Mart Kart arcade game the most. Nintendo should have put that one out on the Wii with a REAL steering wheel just the arcade cabinet had.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Oct 21, 2011, 06:25:53 PM
Mario Kart DS is the best one imo. Karts seem to move faster in that version. I take that back I liked the Mart Kart arcade game the most. Nintendo should have put that one out on the Wii with a REAL steering wheel just the arcade cabinet had.

My friend was talking about the DS, not the GBA, now that I think about it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 22, 2011, 12:09:59 AM
How can you have no love for the bikes?  The bikes are the shit, homes!  Wheelies!  Fuggin' wheelies!  Peach is my girl.  On the Dolphin Dasher, Speedster, or Mach Bike.  I'll waste you, son.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Oct 22, 2011, 01:56:39 AM
Challenge accepted!

We will have to set up and time and date.

I did find a bike that works for me though...Bowser on the Wario Bike. Didn't think the rider affected the how the bike worked, but it seems to work better for me with Bowser. Maybe it's a mental thing.

I think i just needed to get use to the bikes. They work pretty good for me now. Still like the Karts better though.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 22, 2011, 07:39:21 PM
You guys got in a Mario Kart mood again. I tried to play MKWii again but those fucking blue shells ruin the whole game. I'm probably gonna skip Mario Kart 7 just because they refuse to give you the option to turn off powet ups.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 22, 2011, 09:20:15 PM
The blue shells don't make a difference if you're far enough ahead though.

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 22, 2011, 10:57:58 PM
So what are you trying to say? I'm not good at Mart Kart? So it's like that huh? ok ok
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Oct 22, 2011, 11:08:11 PM
I'm playing UNO on OMGPOP.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 23, 2011, 10:35:05 PM
So what are you trying to say? I'm not good at Mart Kart? So it's like that huh? ok ok

No, I said they don't make a diff if you have a large lead.  I don't always get a good lead either so it's nothing on you.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 24, 2011, 12:33:06 AM
I always get a good lead but it's still annoying as fuck. On one of the Nintendo podcasts I listen to, someone mentioned that in Mario Kart 7 the blue shell has be toned down.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 24, 2011, 01:20:51 AM
So... that means the tits on it are smaller or what?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 24, 2011, 05:45:46 AM
I heard they removed the wings so now everyone gets hit as it makes it's way to the person in first place.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Oct 24, 2011, 08:06:45 AM
Ack.  Mario Kart Wii is an all right game because, like anything decent Nintendo's done since the Wii's lauch, they took a successfull game and added to it ever so slightly.  It's barely different than the Gamecube or DS version.

Bikes are cool but I fucking hate my Wii.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 24, 2011, 11:29:07 PM
I heard they removed the wings so now everyone gets hit as it makes it's way to the person in first place.

Oh, that sounds kinda fun actually.  I would consider that more of an upgrade to be honest.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 25, 2011, 03:45:43 AM
blanktoe, I sent you a PSN friend request the other day. Maybe you didn't realize it was me. The message went a little something... a like... a this...

Friend me, mofo.

Now do it, friendo!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 25, 2011, 06:23:49 AM
will do sir.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Sam on Oct 25, 2011, 03:09:26 PM
I'm playing Arkham Asylum, having gotten it for free with Arkham City.

Beating up mental patients is fun.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Oct 25, 2011, 04:44:58 PM
My biggest problem with Mario Kart Wii isn't the blue turtle, but getting gang banged when ever I get hit. It isn't enough I get hit once, but I end up taking 3-4 hits in a row before I can even recover.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 25, 2011, 09:00:06 PM
God, I thought Sam had steered this thread back on track, but then...

No. More Mario Kart nonsense.

Mario Kart is meth. Just because it feels good doesn't mean it's good for you.

Stop the insanity.

I'm playing Arkham City. It is a complete and utter Batman: The Animated Series fan's wankfest.

That's a good thing.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Oct 25, 2011, 09:48:59 PM
I was going to wait and get Arkham City when I can get it a bit cheaper used. Decided I have to grow up and budget shit or whatever.

I'm playing through Mas Effect 2 again, but on the PS3. It looks a lot nicer. I was going to force myself to go Renegade, but no matter how hard I try, I find it hard to take the 'evil' path in these sorts of games. I just can't justify it in my brains. Maybe after I beat it again as a paragon I'll be able to force myself.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Oct 26, 2011, 12:48:05 AM
God, I thought Sam had steered this thread back on track, but then...

No. More Mario Kart nonsense.

Mario Kart is meth. Just because it feels good doesn't mean it's good for you.

Stop the insanity.

I'm playing Arkham City. It is a complete and utter Batman: The Animated Series fan's wankfest.

That's a good thing.

So you want use to talk about Mario Kart some more? As you wish...
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 26, 2011, 01:18:39 AM
I wish there were more courses in Mario Kart.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 26, 2011, 04:31:09 AM
Speaking of Mario Kart, I started playing Luigi's Mansion again. I never knew that game was a parody of Resident Evil. Nintendo can pull some amazing shit out of their asses sometimes. It's a shame it's taken them ten years to finally get around to doing a sequel.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 26, 2011, 04:34:36 AM
Anyone played Infamous 1 and 2? Am I crazy or are those games meant to be "dark" and "mature" version of the Super Mario games?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Oct 26, 2011, 11:20:22 AM
You don't have to have a good lead to avoid the blue shell. Sometimes you just need to have someone close behind you. Drop back and let them take it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 27, 2011, 12:34:19 AM
Maybe I'm just seeing things but I could've sworn that doesn't work.  That, when launched, the shell fixates on the target because I've been nailed when I'm already in second.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Oct 27, 2011, 05:53:51 AM
Fucking HELL MY BODY IS NOT READY!
http://nintendo3dsblog.com/confirmed-luigi-is-playable-in-super-mario-3d-land
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: The D on Nov 21, 2011, 06:53:59 PM
While we're talking about Super Mario 3D, have you guys heard what PETA was doing about that game?

So, PETA is now complaining about the Tanooki (raccoon) suit Mario dons in SM3D, saying it encourages kids to kill real tanooki, skin them, and then wear their fur. Sure it does. So PETA, of course, makes a shitty video game where you play the skinned Tanooki and try to kill Mario.
http://abington.patch.com/articles/mario-peta

And then PETA backpedaled like a bitch and said it was a joke
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396529,00.asp

I think we need to declare a new hunting season. PETA hunting season.

(also, I would have made this it's own thread, but I can't.)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: The D on Nov 21, 2011, 07:00:35 PM
Dear god that game sucks ass. I couldn't even get remotely close to the end of the game, if it has an end. I'd hit the edge of a pit and somehow die (falling in?) even though I was standing ON the edge of the pit. My shit could make a better video game than Peta.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Nov 21, 2011, 10:07:58 PM
Dear god that game sucks ass. I couldn't even get remotely close to the end of the game, if it has an end. I'd hit the edge of a pit and somehow die (falling in?) even though I was standing ON the edge of the pit. My shit could make a better video game than Peta.

Did it 0:20 on my third try.

Man, PETA sure pisses me off sometimes, but these stupid fucking games somehow humor me.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Nov 21, 2011, 11:18:23 PM
Dear god that game sucks ass. I couldn't even get remotely close to the end of the game, if it has an end. I'd hit the edge of a pit and somehow die (falling in?) even though I was standing ON the edge of the pit. My shit could make a better video game than Peta.

You have to understand they couldn't product test that game on animals.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Nov 21, 2011, 11:40:12 PM
WTF's a "tanooki"?  Foreign word fail.

Merla told me about this the other day.  <a href="
>It was more humorous when it was in my imagination.[/url]
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Nov 22, 2011, 02:42:24 AM
WTF's a "tanooki"?  Foreign word fail.

Merla told me about this the other day.  <a href="
>It was more humorous when it was in my imagination.[/url]

I can imagine that to be true.

Dear god that game sucks ass. I couldn't even get remotely close to the end of the game, if it has an end. I'd hit the edge of a pit and somehow die (falling in?) even though I was standing ON the edge of the pit. My shit could make a better video game than Peta.

You have to understand they couldn't product test that game on animals.

That made me chortle inside.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Nov 22, 2011, 03:08:07 PM
Well, this was 6 minutes well spent.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Nov 22, 2011, 03:38:00 PM
Legend of Zelda on the NES, but I've already beat it again so I won't be playing that anymore.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Nov 22, 2011, 03:46:56 PM
I remember this ep of Clean House where they got this guy to give up his working NES and his NES games... and it ended up in the donation truck since no one bought it.  He should have been allowed to save it at that point.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Nov 22, 2011, 03:53:49 PM
I'd have bought it...my NES is a clone and not the real deal.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Nov 25, 2011, 06:12:11 PM
My PS2 is my nes and snes.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 08, 2012, 02:36:40 PM
MASS EFFECT 3
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 08, 2012, 02:37:02 PM
My PS2 is my nes and snes.

Xbox does it better.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Mar 12, 2012, 06:19:29 PM
What kind of mod do you need for xbox? If it's more than 30$ then it's a rip off.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 12, 2012, 09:54:34 PM
What kind of mod do you need for xbox? If it's more than 30$ then it's a rip off.

Honestly, No idea, but an internal hard drive makes it automatically better.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Mar 14, 2012, 01:47:22 AM
I think that's a hard mod. Which requires you taking your xbox to someone or soldering chips on yourself. 

PS2 you just get a new top and some boot discs and you're in business.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 14, 2012, 02:42:12 PM
I think that's a hard mod. Which requires you taking your xbox to someone or soldering chips on yourself.  

PS2 you just get a new top and some boot discs and you're in business.

It's still better.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Mar 18, 2012, 07:47:53 AM
How?

(You'd be able to answer this if you'd gone to college)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 19, 2012, 12:20:35 PM
Because of the hard drive.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Mar 19, 2012, 01:09:09 PM
The Force Unleashed 2.

Not nearly as good as the first one and way to short. I finished it in one sitting on the first day I got it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 19, 2012, 04:02:58 PM
The Force Unleashed 2.

Not nearly as good as the first one and way to short. I finished it in one sitting on the first day I got it.

I still haven't finished that damn game. I mean the first one, actually.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 19, 2012, 04:46:32 PM
I didn't like FU the first time I played it, but then I came back to it months later and enjoyed it quite a bit. I think it's because I was having a Star Wars nostalgia relapse after watching the second season of Clone Wars, which was great.

FU2, on the other hand, was a total shit show.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 19, 2012, 07:47:52 PM
I didn't like FU the first time I played it, but then I came back to it months later and enjoyed it quite a bit. I think it's because I was having a Star Wars nostalgia relapse after watching the second season of Clone Wars, which was great.

FU2, on the other hand, was a total shit show.

I've been told this as well.

I actually got stuck multiple times on the first game and that's why I haven't finished it. I think I was in a hangar fool of stormtroopers and an AT-ST last time I had a massive failure.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Mar 19, 2012, 08:44:17 PM
That part is hard as shit at first...but what I do is get up there and take out the snipers and then get into one of the two side hangers on either side of the main hanger and then wait for the giant killer robots that are an ever loving pain in the ass to come to me and then use Force Lighting on them.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 19, 2012, 09:39:18 PM
That part is hard as shit at first...but what I do is get up there and take out the snipers and then get into one of the two side hangers on either side of the main hanger and then wait for the giant killer robots that are an ever loving pain in the ass to come to me and then use Force Lighting on them.

That sounds like what I tried to do but DIIIEEEEDDD
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 19, 2012, 10:20:40 PM
Ha. I think we can confirm that area was bullshit, because I know exactly what you guys are talking about. There's fucking ceaseless blaster fire coming at you from every which way, the only thing you can do is turtle up and wait for guys to filter towards you at a more manageable pace.

Most of the boss fights were completely fucking busted, too. Just poorly implemented all around. I had to retry the Vader fight at the end so many times that I actually ended up developing an infinite stagger loop where I would pop him into the air, combo the shit out of him, slam him to the ground, and then pop him back up again and repeat. I practically shit my pants any time I dropped the timing and he'd break out of it momentarily, because he'll lay waste to you if you give him the chance.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Mar 19, 2012, 11:20:02 PM
You know what is funny. As tough as Vader is to beat in the first one...it is like super easy in the 2nd. It takes a long time, but it's not hard. I never even got close to dying when I fought him. It is just a lot of doing the same thing over and over...and that was after a level of doing the same thing over and over again.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Mar 20, 2012, 03:59:03 AM
I'm still playing Skyrim off and on, on the xbox.
Wouldn't mind some DLC soon tho
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Mar 20, 2012, 04:50:20 PM
Because of the hard drive.

Space on the hard drive is limited.  Even if you could fit every game ever made for NES and SNES in our world on there, there are games in parallel worlds that you wouldn't have room for. 
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 20, 2012, 05:56:04 PM
Because of the hard drive.

Space on the hard drive is limited.  Even if you could fit every game ever made for NES and SNES in our world on there, there are games in parallel worlds that you wouldn't have room for. 

Yeah, like Grand Theft Mario Kart.
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Post by: Rumble on Mar 21, 2012, 02:51:42 PM
Or Hitler's Revenge
feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Post by: Fiero on Mar 21, 2012, 09:23:37 PM
Because of the hard drive.

Space on the hard drive is limited.  Even if you could fit every game ever made for NES and SNES in our world on there, there are games in parallel worlds that you wouldn't have room for. 

Your mom's got a hard drive.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 21, 2012, 10:15:01 PM
:-[

Is it really okay to say that?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Mar 23, 2012, 08:04:55 AM
Your Dad's got a floppy drive.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Mar 23, 2012, 02:51:02 PM
Your turtle has a sideways toboggan.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 24, 2012, 01:14:42 AM
Don't let him say that about your turtle, bro!  :joe:
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Mar 30, 2012, 09:45:47 AM
In those cold Canadian winter nights I sometimes like to call my dick "the frightened turtle".
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Apr 01, 2012, 01:29:59 AM
Try not banging a pot and pan so close to your crotch and maybe it'll be a little less frightened.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 02, 2012, 07:41:11 AM
Sometimes I put yellows things in front of it so I get hard.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Apr 07, 2012, 07:58:35 PM
Downloaded Megaman 9 on Xbox arcade.
I forgot how fucking hard video games used to be.

Gave up on it after about 15 mins
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Sam on Apr 08, 2012, 10:22:00 PM
I'm not playing anything because, after 6 years, my 360 finally red-ringed.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 08, 2012, 10:53:16 PM
....CPR?
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 08, 2012, 11:01:15 PM
Xenoblade Chronicles on the Nintendo Wiinis. So far, so good.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 09, 2012, 06:05:22 PM
Downloaded Megaman 9 on Xbox arcade.
I forgot how fucking hard video games used to be.

Gave up on it after about 15 mins

MM9 is nowhere near as hard as some of the old MM games, though.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 12, 2012, 01:17:10 PM
Downloaded Megaman 9 on Xbox arcade.
I forgot how fucking hard video games used to be.

Gave up on it after about 15 mins
Games didn't used to be this hard. I play old games.  I play old Mega Man games.  This is on a whole other level.

Quote
MM9 is nowhere near as hard as some of the old MM games, though.
Bull shit!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 12, 2012, 03:28:12 PM
Angry Birds. Although I've already beat all the levels that I have. There are more to be downloaded, but you know...Dial up...blah, blah, blah.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 12, 2012, 04:59:18 PM
Oh, come on. Even on dial-up, Angry Birds stuff can't possibly take that long to download.

Old Mega Man games were hard, but they were always fair. MM9 and 10 border on sadism.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 12, 2012, 05:30:57 PM
Don't underestimate how slow my dial up is.

But I know someone that will let me piggy back on their highspeed to download things.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Apr 12, 2012, 05:56:30 PM
MM9 is nowhere near as hard as some of the old MM games, though.

I dunno, I played the first 4 on the NES back in the day and can't recall having much of a problem with them.
Maybe I really started to suck at video games
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Post by: Rumble on Apr 12, 2012, 06:04:17 PM
^
Posted that before I read Adam and Joe's comments.
Glad it's not just me
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Apr 16, 2012, 12:22:02 PM
Does anyone who actually still plays games really feel they've gotten worse at games?  I may have gotten out of practice with certain Nintendo games, but all around I'm surely better at them then I was 20 years ago.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Apr 16, 2012, 03:57:03 PM
I definitely got worse, but then again I've only started playing again a few years ago. Didn't have much use for gaming in my boozehound days
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 16, 2012, 08:15:27 PM
Maybe I remembered that wrong.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 19, 2012, 07:41:42 AM
Draw Something. And I just saw on fb that Rama has it too! plz add?
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Post by: Rama on Apr 19, 2012, 12:50:03 PM
I do?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 19, 2012, 06:18:22 PM
Oh shit nevermind, it was "Words with friends". Brain fart
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Apr 19, 2012, 07:09:16 PM
Don't play with him.  He'll pass on his curse of "six vowels + unusable consonant."
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Apr 19, 2012, 07:13:08 PM
That curse is no match for teh internets
http://www.tnellen.com/ted/scrabble/scrabble_words_others.html
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Apr 19, 2012, 07:35:30 PM
I'm not good with scrabble, my ADD kicks in lol

Don't play with him.  He'll pass on his curse of "six vowels + unusable consonant."
Oh yeah Nuri I saw that you had that too! you all should download Draw Something
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Apr 19, 2012, 08:01:49 PM
I checked it out earlier.  It looks cute but at lot of the stuff posted on their Facebook page is just people copying from photos or drawings.  What do you do?  You're given a topic and you draw it?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 19, 2012, 11:47:57 PM
That's it exactly.

Really, it's just Pictionary.

I'd actually like to try it sometime.

http://cinemassacre.com/2012/04/02/draw-something/
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 20, 2012, 12:08:43 AM
Don't play with him.  He'll pass on his curse of "six vowels + unusable consonant."

It was seven vowels thank you very much. 2 A, 2 U, 2 O, and an I.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Apr 20, 2012, 12:20:34 AM
Didn't you have a Q before?  Because then I ended up having, like, I I I O U A H or some shit like that.  And in another game it was similar except with a Q.  Oh lawd, you're cursed, child!  Cursed!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 20, 2012, 12:40:09 AM
The seven vowels where in another game I was playing with someone else. Getting my ass kicked by words like "Drunk" "Peed" thanks to that.

Oh yeah, a Q and 5 As. I'd already forgot about that. My game luck, seems to follow my real luck...Lousy.  The current game we are having I'm having much better luck though. But I think your 49 point move might be a tide turner as I've been having trouble getting high scoring words (even though I have them) up on the board since.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Apr 20, 2012, 04:25:11 PM
You guys know there are several two-letter words that are only vowels right?

http://phrontistery.info/scrabble3.html
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 20, 2012, 11:43:53 PM
Oh yeah...and I had to play a few to get our of that mess. I think I used Aa...and Ou. In the all vowel game, not the one with Beck. Although I did use a lot of one or two letter words to get rid of them there too, just not any all vowel words.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Apr 21, 2012, 06:53:42 PM
You guys know there are several two-letter words that are only vowels right?

http://phrontistery.info/scrabble3.html

We know.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 22, 2012, 02:38:43 AM
Or you could just put it short and sweet like that.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 23, 2012, 10:49:19 PM
Are you sure?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 08, 2012, 02:37:44 PM
sooooooo, Wii U, Nintendo said they learned from the launch of the 3DS. WE all assumed that meant they learned need to have better games at launch. NOOOOO, Nintendo just learned they need to have a mediocre Mario game and ports of ps3/360 games people already bought a year ago. With that said, I'm buying the fuck out this thing DAY ONE! SQUIRREL SUIT BITCHES!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: The D on Jun 09, 2012, 04:48:30 PM
Back on track

WHAT I AM PLAYING:

Zelda 4 Swords Adventures
It's a pretty tough game in later levels.

Also, my grandfather just got me Skyward Sword so that's gonna be my next game! Fuck yea!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 12, 2012, 02:58:17 AM
ZOMG GUISE I JUST FOUND OUT I CAN DOWNLOAD SUPER MARIO WORLD ON THE WII

MIND= MOTHER F.CKING BLOWN
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 12, 2012, 09:28:36 AM
I remember being so excited for Chrono Trigger and FFIII on Wii but never got around to buying the controller I needed or the game for that matter.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 12, 2012, 06:54:44 PM
damnit i forgot you need a controller to play Mario too. ffff
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jun 13, 2012, 09:28:24 AM
If you have a Gamecube controller that would work.  Of course if you were prone to keeping old gaming hardware you should hardly need a Wii to play Super Mario World.

Oh yeah, and motherfucking Lollipop Chainsaw is amazing!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Jun 15, 2012, 02:31:21 PM
The only game I play occasionally these days is Plants vs Zombies on the ipad.
But I suspect that will change when Dawnguard comes out
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 15, 2012, 09:16:54 PM
I mostly play Pac-Man on the phone. But I've recently picked up Arkham City again with the idea that I'd finally kick the Riddler's ass. Then I remembered how tedious that is, so I'm probably just going to start a new game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 15, 2012, 11:38:43 PM
I've been playing FB games.  Nothing on a console or anything like that.  But it does get tiring with some of them always trying to sell you crap.  Yeah, I know that's their bread and butter and I wouldn't mind otherwise except they're doing it at rip-off prices.  Five real dollars for a fake shirt for my avatar?  REALLY?   :nono:
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 16, 2012, 12:04:31 PM
I hate FB games with a purple people-eating passion. Not because I've ever played them, mind you, but because of the people on my list sending invites and asking for stuff. I'd never play them for fear that they'd turn me into a greedy FB spammer.

However, FB Purity is your friend. The only time I see that crap now is when I browse FB on my cellphone.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 16, 2012, 09:35:44 PM
I used to get annoyed with that too but now that I'm playing them myself, I can see it's really easy to fuck up and send invites and shit to people who don't play.  Or like Press Your Luck where you get a bonus for spamming your friends.  I admit, I did it a couple of times because I didn't want to pass it up and I figure people who don't want to play can ignore the request or delete it.  But for most of my games, I keep a dedicated list and my gaming shit should only be viewable to those people.  Assuming Facebook didn't jack with my settings, which is probably a tenuous assumption.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jun 18, 2012, 07:29:54 PM
I've never played FB games before and I never will. Just iphone ones. But I get bored of them easily. I did play the fuck out of the Smurfs game and the Mushroom growing one too
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Jun 28, 2012, 11:42:56 AM
I'm flying around Skyrim as a vampire lord
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 28, 2012, 09:45:54 PM
I finally fixed my HTPC...the computer I built and stuffed into an old Atari 5200 box. I'm currently looking for a decent emulator so I can play old 5200 games on a new machine built inside an old 5200 console.

I'm sure there's a yodawg meme thing I could do with that.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 29, 2012, 12:46:03 AM
I finally fixed my HTPC...the computer I built and stuffed into an old Atari 5200 box. I'm currently looking for a decent emulator so I can play old 5200 games on a new machine built inside an old 5200 console.

I'm sure there's a yodawg meme thing I could do with that.

This sounds pretty great.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 29, 2012, 10:21:05 AM
It actually does.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 29, 2012, 08:16:27 PM
Turns out that kat5200 is a pretty decent emu.  Aside from the windowed display and X-Box 360 controller, it was a real blast from the past.

If you're interested to see what I did, chell out the build (http://www.shwiggie.com/operation-atarihtpc-part-1/). I still have to put together a software setup article, but since I'm still tweaking it I haven't taken the time.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 12, 2012, 01:54:58 AM
joe, you're famous.  :o
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 12, 2012, 11:37:56 AM
Turns out that kat5200 is a pretty decent emu.  Aside from the windowed display and X-Box 360 controller, it was a real blast from the past.

If you're interested to see what I did, chell out the build (http://www.shwiggie.com/operation-atarihtpc-part-1/). I still have to put together a software setup article, but since I'm still tweaking it I haven't taken the time.

I love those little keyboard devices so very much. I don't have one, but a friend had one and it was awesome. I did not realize they were so cheap, though.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 12, 2012, 12:29:37 PM
Holy shit!

When do I get my royalty cheque?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 12, 2012, 06:53:20 PM
Holy shit!

When do I get my royalty cheque?

Wh do the girls with the same colors attack the girls with the same colors? Would it not make more sense for each to attack the girls with the different colors?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Jul 12, 2012, 11:51:36 PM
Because that'd be racist.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 13, 2012, 12:45:57 AM
^ That.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 13, 2012, 04:37:01 PM
But we can't have all this red on red, blue on blue, and whatever the other color was on itself crime. It just ain't right, brotha man.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 13, 2012, 07:33:10 PM
It's actually just one girl attacking three of her classmates.

Which reminds me, I still haven't finished watching the rest of Zetsubou.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 14, 2012, 02:24:09 AM
JUst FYI Super Mario Bros 2 is outo
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 15, 2012, 12:34:29 AM
Screw that, it was just a dream.  None of your work matters.  None of it!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 16, 2012, 12:52:54 PM
JUst FYI Super Mario Bros 2 is outo

Yeah, since like the late 80s.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 16, 2012, 07:16:25 PM
I thought maybe she meant New Super Mario Bros. 2 on the 3DS, but that's not even out in Japan until the end of the month.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 17, 2012, 08:21:17 AM
Doesn't look like it's the Wii or 3DS virtual console.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 18, 2012, 11:18:06 PM
Downloaded Hard Corps the other day. It's basically Contra for modern consoles, but somehow it's just not that fun.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 19, 2012, 07:51:59 AM
I know Hard Corps Uprising is supposed to be Contra, but it sure doesn't feel like it. The last great Contra game in my opinion was Shattered Soldier on the PS2. A lot of people complain about the lack of weapon drops -- you can freely cycle through three predetermined weapons instead -- but Shattered Soldier is just all around awesome.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 19, 2012, 08:11:32 AM
I still play Contra and it's two immediately proceeding sequels fairly regularly.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 20, 2012, 01:09:17 AM
JUst FYI Super Mario Bros 2 is outo

Yeah, since like the late 80s.

For the 3DS bro
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 20, 2012, 09:15:32 AM
The only reason I'd ever buy a portable would be to play those Mario games. But I figure it won't be long before I can play them on my PC.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 20, 2012, 10:57:33 AM
JUst FYI Super Mario Bros 2 is outo

Yeah, since like the late 80s.

For the 3DS bro

Then that's probably not the full title.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 20, 2012, 11:30:29 AM
New Super Mario Bros. 2, I'd imagine.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 20, 2012, 11:47:25 AM
New Super Mario Bros. 2, I'd imagine.

I didn't even know it existed.

I just watched the trailer. Apparently this is the Mario game that teaches kids that the only thing that matters is gold. If you don't like your enemies, turn them into gold. If lava's got you down, turn yourself gold. Gold, gold gold.

This is Mario now:

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 20, 2012, 05:42:34 PM
New Super Mario Bros. 2, I'd imagine.

I didn't even know it existed.

I just watched the trailer. Apparently this is the Mario game that teaches kids that the only thing that matters is gold. If you don't like your enemies, turn them into gold. If lava's got you down, turn yourself gold. Gold, gold gold.



So anal
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 20, 2012, 05:49:58 PM
New Super Mario Bros. 2, I'd imagine.

I didn't even know it existed.

I just watched the trailer. Apparently this is the Mario game that teaches kids that the only thing that matters is gold. If you don't like your enemies, turn them into gold. If lava's got you down, turn yourself gold. Gold, gold gold.



So anal

I mean, if you're into anal, I guess it's like gold.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 21, 2012, 01:29:08 PM
Mario's always been about the Benjamins.

And why not? I'd be stealing money from flying turtles if it meant having a get out of death free card.
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Post by: blanktoe on Jul 22, 2012, 08:52:50 PM
I thought the game was fucking Peach and eating her cake out.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Jul 22, 2012, 10:43:15 PM
That game would have more replayability.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 23, 2012, 08:17:41 AM
I don't know if I want to buy New Mario Bros. 2 since I hated the Wii version but liked the DS version somewhat.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 23, 2012, 11:53:36 AM
I don't know if I want to buy New Mario Bros. 2 since I hated the Wii version but liked the DS version somewhat.

I rather liked them both immensely, but NSMBWii did feel a bit stagnant and boring in some parts. It did have a few excellent levels like the one where you're moving upward in a castle as Bullet Bills are coming from all directions.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 24, 2012, 03:39:15 AM
I have Super Mario Bros 1 but for the DSi. I think they re-released it for the 3ds, cant remember. So many marios.
Anyways I didn't like it much. I'll try to play it again
I want OoT goddamnit
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 24, 2012, 11:21:37 AM
I have Super Mario Bros 1 but for the DSi. I think they re-released it for the 3ds, cant remember. So many marios.
Anyways I didn't like it much. I'll try to play it again
I want OoT goddamnit

It's called New Super Mario Bros. It was for the DS. There is Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS which is a completely different game. This game is a sequel to New Super Mario Bros for the DS.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 24, 2012, 06:05:18 PM
Ahhh SOU DESU NEEEEEEE

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 24, 2012, 06:30:12 PM
Ahhh SOU DESU NEEEEEEE



So is your mother.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 02, 2012, 06:03:44 PM
The demo for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is out. It's funner than the first. I hate multiplayer though...everybody beats my ass before I can learn the ropes.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 03, 2012, 08:06:08 AM
Then hone your skills in the Beta!  I'm usually pretty bad at shooters but I'm pretty competant at War for Cybertron.  Looking forward to trying out the demo.  You get it on the 360 Scott?  Do I have you in my friend's list?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 03, 2012, 06:55:47 PM
I'm on POS3. I have to wonder if my 1Mbps-at-best connection may be a problem.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Oct 05, 2012, 05:01:13 PM
I've been playing Bad Piggies on the iPad, which may be greatest game ever
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Dec 20, 2012, 03:38:26 PM
I've been playing Cthulhu Saves the World on the iPad, which is fun in small doses
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Dec 20, 2012, 11:59:42 PM
Metroid...trying to actually beat this game for the first time, but I'm having trouble with the 2nd boss (There are only three bosses, and it depends on what order you take them on which one is the 2nd. I'm having trouble with the one that shoots needles out of his gut.) Tried the freeze ray on him, but I still get my ass handed to me because I can't get low enough to freeze the bottom needle. Ugh...
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Dec 21, 2012, 12:17:33 AM
Still just really playing Halo 4 but I got FTL and Alpha Centauri from GOG. FTL doesn't run that well, sadly. I haven't tried Alpha Centauri yet.

Also, I played board games today. Well, card games. DC DBG and Penny Arcade Rumble in R'yleh DBG. Both very fun.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Dec 21, 2012, 11:23:03 AM
Them ain't vidya games and we don't take kindly to them in our thread. Now git!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 21, 2012, 10:31:02 PM
Street Fighter vs. Mega Man. They definitely got the difficulty down pat, but damn....
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: The D on Dec 22, 2012, 04:32:16 PM
I started playing Skyward Sword a month ago and I would say this is one of the best of the 3D Zelda games, up there with Ocarina of Time and maybe even better than Twilight Princess.

And my god... it actually doesn't have Zelda or Ganon this time! And there's voice acting, my god!!!

Okay, so Zelda does show up in this one (of course), and I'd say she's the sexiest of all the Zeldas. Ganon isn't in this one (yet), but may pop up near the end as always. Instead, the villain is this skinny emo twink that looks like he escaped from a Kingdom Hearts game.

And there's no voice acting. Come on, I can understand this being true in older games where sound files take up valuable space and processor powet, but not with the Wii. Not having voice actors makes the game seem a bit outdated. Don't give a shit what tradition says, and I think the Japanese worry too much about tradition anyway.


Also, this Christmas break I'll be playing the second installment of the Marathon FPS series, since I played the first one last Christmas break.

Marathon is a FPS trilogy made by Bungie in the 90s before they made Halo, and it's almost as good as Halo. The game has things unheard of in FPS games back then, like an elaborate storyline, and in the second and third games, multiple paths and even, for the third one, multiple endings.

The game code was released in the early 2000s and has been updated with new graphics, and is free to download for any system, just google "Marathon Game".
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Dec 23, 2012, 10:45:06 PM
I've been meaning to go through Marathon again. I started to play through the first one and ended up getting lost in the terminals story and not actually caring about the gameplay.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Dec 27, 2012, 09:28:58 AM
Metroid...trying to actually beat this game for the first time, but I'm having trouble with the 2nd boss (There are only three bosses, and it depends on what order you take them on which one is the 2nd. I'm having trouble with the one that shoots needles out of his gut.) Tried the freeze ray on him, but I still get my ass handed to me because I can't get low enough to freeze the bottom needle. Ugh...
His name is Kraid.  A good approach is to just bomb the hell out of him.  If you have enough energy tanks you'll get him.  Then you grab the energy tank on the right in the walls of the lava pool to fill up and leave.  Shooting his missiles in conjunction with this is a fine strategy to help keep your damage down but it's unecessary.

I always thought of Kraid as the first boss and Ridley as the second.  The damage scales differently in different zones and you take more in Ridley's area which tells me the game feels this way too.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Dec 29, 2012, 11:58:07 PM
Yeah I ended up beating him, but still haven't beat the game yet. That is more from just lack of time and that ass impossible password system.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Dec 30, 2012, 09:03:25 AM
I got Metroid both on my old NES and on the Wii virtual console. I really should play it some day.

I did play through Super Metroid on the SNES tho
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 30, 2012, 05:13:49 PM
JUSTIN BAILEY is your friend.

Rather than the original, I'd just fire up Zero Mission.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Dec 31, 2012, 08:57:41 AM
So many weird passwords for that.

999999 999999
KKKKKK KKKKKK

Is a weird one.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 09, 2013, 01:45:29 PM
GUISE GUISE I FINALLY GOT AN EMULATOR
So now I downloaded Mario World for snes and Zelda OOT. SO EXCITED. It sucks having to play with the keyboard tho so IM going to try to buy a control
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on May 09, 2013, 02:23:19 PM
Arkham City


Don't really like this one as much as the first one.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 09, 2013, 08:15:07 PM
LOVE that game. Moreso than Asylum, which was also good.

The new Tomb Raider is good, even if it is Uncharted starring Lara Croft. I played the stew out of it the first two weeks it was out, but I got busy with work and left the southeast in the middle of April and haven't picked it back up. It's hard when you're 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through, you put it down, and then you don't want to have to learn it again.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on May 10, 2013, 06:31:00 AM
Haha, I'm the exact same way. I'll get started on a game and then I get busy or distracted by something else. Then months later when I have time to play a game again I don't really want to pick it up again, cause I already got too far to start over again but completely forgot the controls and objectives to continue where I left off.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on May 10, 2013, 07:11:17 AM
Yup. Most modern games are just too involved in that regard. That shit happens to me all the time. The way they drip feed you the fundamentals over the course of multiple hours is fine if you're able to play from start to finish in a matter of weeks, but that's just not possible for everyone. Games should offer some sort of condensed refresher for people who stopped playing halfway through and want to pick up where they left off.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 10, 2013, 01:10:55 PM
Haha, I'm the exact same way. I'll get started on a game and then I get busy or distracted by something else. Then months later when I have time to play a game again I don't really want to pick it up again, cause I already got too far to start over again but completely forgot the controls and objectives to continue where I left off.
DOnt even try to play ocarina of time then. that game has so many fucking controls i forgot about them already and it has been less than 24 hours since i started playing it

so stressful
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 10, 2013, 08:10:15 PM
It actually happened to me on Arkham Asylum. I got about three quarters of the way through, got hung up on RL stuff, and two months later I just said, fuck it, I got Arkham City now.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on May 11, 2013, 12:35:17 AM
I find myself rushing to finish a game so that then I can go back and replay it at my leisure.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on May 11, 2013, 07:11:42 AM
I typically don't replay games, unless I really enjoy them. Same goes for movies and books. Once is usually plenty.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on May 11, 2013, 04:02:31 PM
The only game I remember replaying a lot was Lyat Wars on the N64.
The game was pretty short and the diffuclty low, but so much fun
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 12, 2013, 01:31:56 PM
Ive replayed the shit out of Mario 64 (first on the 64 and then on my DSi)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 13, 2013, 10:30:20 AM
Rented Bioshock Infinite from Rebox (decent service, I'd say).

I think it's better than the first one in a lot of ways. I'll probably end up buying it.

And I started Blood Dragon. OMFG YES
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on May 15, 2013, 03:56:20 PM
Ive replayed the shit out of Mario 64 (first on the 64 and then on my DSi)

As much as I love Mario games I've never played SM64 or SM64 DS all the way through. I'll probably pick it again after Nintendo puts out the HD remake.

Rented Bioshock Infinite from Rebox (decent service, I'd say).

I think it's better than the first one in a lot of ways. I'll probably end up buying it.

And I started Blood Dragon. OMFG YES

I plan on buy both of those and Tomb Raider on Black friday.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 15, 2013, 04:36:05 PM
Don't you mean Cyber Monday?  Tee hee.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 15, 2013, 10:01:22 PM
As much as I love college football, I bought a copy of NCAA '12 for my PS3, played it a month, stopped a month, and could not remember how to play it when I picked it up again. So I haven't played it since. In the meanwhile, I picked up NFL Quarterback Club on ZSNES, which was my favorite FB game of all time (screw you, Madden)...and there was no problem once I got my old favorite audibles set up. Control wasn't a problem, but, then, there were half as many buttons and no function toggling going on. The controls on 2012 took a Philadelphia lawyer to nail down.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 22, 2013, 03:07:22 PM
I played fucking BLOOD DRAGON

HOLY FUCKING AWESOME SAUCE

I would make sweet 80's montage love to this game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on May 22, 2013, 06:53:45 PM
 Blood Dragon is fucking epic! I almost died when I saw the two weapons to get at the end.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on May 28, 2013, 10:31:00 AM
I'm totally hooked on Minecraft on the Xbox.
At first it was just this stupid game my gf played, getting milk from blocky cows to bake a cake or something. But now that I'm learning how to do the electrical circuits, I'm the one who's hogging the game. I've built all sorts of cool mechanisms and death traps.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 28, 2013, 12:38:18 PM
I'm totally hooked on Minecraft on the Xbox.
At first it was just this stupid game my gf played, getting milk from blocky cows to bake a cake or something. But now that I'm learning how to do the electrical circuits, I'm the one who's hogging the game. I've built all sorts of cool mechanisms and death traps.

You should try it on PC. You can do all that and way more.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on May 28, 2013, 12:39:19 PM
I got a PS3 and started playing DC Universe Online with the flat mates again. It's better than when I last left it, so that's a good thing, but it's still got problems.

We're also going to start playing Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer, and I very much want to be doing that.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on May 29, 2013, 07:32:08 AM
Do people actually refer to them as "flats" where you live, or is that just one of your personal affectations?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 29, 2013, 02:18:02 PM
Well, he's two major municipalities above me so I'm gonna take a swing at it and say no, but it's probably easier and more accurate than saying housemate or roommate, the latter of which sounds a little more intimate.  And it's certainly shorter than apartmentmate.  No one here calls them flats.  Anyway, that's how my part of the state rolls.  Now we wait until he responds to you and Steve Harvey lets me know how many points I got, just like on the Feud.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on May 29, 2013, 10:10:45 PM
So it's basically just Fiero being pretentious as usual.

And I still think this is how he looks IRL:

(http://i44.tinypic.com/5bocx3.jpg)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 29, 2013, 10:12:22 PM
Not Popeye enough.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on May 29, 2013, 10:15:29 PM
Oh, I guess you guys are all on facebook together, aren't you? So the mystery of physical appearances is just nonexistent at this point.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on May 30, 2013, 12:02:36 AM
Privacy is highly overrated.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 30, 2013, 01:45:09 AM
Oh, I guess you guys are all on facebook together, aren't you? So the mystery of physical appearances is just nonexistent at this point.
You no have no facebook? you no cool enough. gettout!

I downloaded Simcity2000 and played the fuck out of it for 2 days (built a whole city with arcologies in it)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on May 30, 2013, 08:33:53 AM
Some people are just too cool for facebook
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on May 30, 2013, 07:22:37 PM
Yes, it's something I've always struggled with.

Mmmno.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 30, 2013, 09:36:08 PM
They're gonna wait this Facebook thing out until the next hot fad comes along.  That's rad.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 31, 2013, 09:23:35 PM
I have FB, but I'm pretty picky. I quit adding internet associates a long time ago...around the same time I quit adding co-workers and family members I don't like.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 01, 2013, 09:38:37 AM
internet associates...that makes me feel sad for some reason.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 01, 2013, 10:12:16 PM
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 01, 2013, 10:25:53 PM
I forget where that's from.  *GOOGLE*  Oh, that's right.  Rings.  Good line.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Jun 02, 2013, 11:40:05 PM
They are gonna take your card away and you keep slipping up like that.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 04, 2013, 12:37:05 PM
I hid it really, really good.  And they can't take away something they can't find.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Jun 04, 2013, 04:12:50 PM
But where could you hide it that...you know what don't answer that.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 04, 2013, 05:50:24 PM
By all means...do.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Jun 05, 2013, 04:44:34 AM
Witch Wars on android.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: The D on Jun 13, 2013, 08:23:58 PM
A friend gave me Devil May Cry 3....

... I heard it was hard as shit... and it is. This thing's brutal.

Supposedly the biggest complaint about 2 was it was too easy so it seems Capcom made this one a billion times more impossible. Most of the time it's a hard boss at the end of a level that is the most difficult part, and they designed the game so that if you die, you either have to restart at the beginning of the level, or (if you have a resurrection orb) just outside the boss chamber where you have to start the boss battle from the beginning.

I guess the Japanese don't like anything that's too easy.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: IDE on Jun 15, 2013, 04:57:48 AM
Some fucks have hacked witch wars.  It's such a gay hack too, you instantly lose when you try to play them. 
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Jun 15, 2013, 11:38:21 PM
Got to play Super Mario 3D World at Best Buy today. You had to sign in to play but after your turn you could sign in again as many times as you wanted. I only got to play one level for all of five minutes. It was fun but you HAD to play with three other people. I probably should have signed up to play it a few more times but Superman was calling me.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 16, 2013, 01:25:52 PM
I will be getting Grid 2, Far Cry 3, Bioshock Infinite, and Tomb Raider at no cost with my new video card tomorrow. Well, Grid 2 is for the CPU, but anyway...four free games.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 02, 2013, 11:12:54 AM
Playing Saints Row 3 since PS+ gave it to me for free.

Really want to start Last of Us but waiting for a deep discount.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 02, 2013, 12:29:54 PM
Last of us looks amazing, and the first thirty minutes are gripping. Sadly I haven't had time to play any further....
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 02, 2013, 12:55:00 PM
Playing Saints Row 3 since PS+ gave it to me for free.
This game is so fucking fantastic.  Can't wait until 4!!!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Jul 07, 2013, 08:18:35 AM
Recently downloaded AC3 via Xbox on demand for just €10. I want to play it but I still have a half-finished game of AC Brotherhood on the drive that I abandoned ages ago and I haven't even started Revelations yet.
I fear AC3 will also sit untouched on the drive for many years to come
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 08, 2013, 11:58:46 AM
Metroid Prime in high definition looks amazing. Too bad the controls are still  crap.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 08, 2013, 01:09:20 PM
Metroid Prime in high definition looks amazing. Too bad the controls are still  crap.
Which version are you refering to?  The Wii version is just 480p, isn't it?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 08, 2013, 08:31:26 PM
Gamecube version via Dolphin emulation.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 09, 2013, 09:18:41 AM
Interesting concept.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 09, 2013, 09:30:18 AM
Oddly enough, it works pretty well. I just wish it'd run off the original discs.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Jul 10, 2013, 11:38:20 AM
I've become heavily addicted to Ruzzle on the iPad
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 10, 2013, 02:58:49 PM
Oh yeah I'm playing a ton of Animal Crossing: New Leaf right now!  Anyone who has the game should exchange friend codes with me if they haven't.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 10, 2013, 09:23:07 PM
Bioshock Infinite is at 93% and closing....I've figured out what I'll be playing over the weekend.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 11, 2013, 11:15:41 AM
Oh yeah I'm playing a ton of Animal Crossing: New Leaf right now!  Anyone who has the game should exchange friend codes with me if they haven't.

One of the reasons I want a 3DS.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 14, 2013, 02:11:00 AM
zomg me too. That and ZOoT ofc.
We should all exchange codes and become tomodachi forever.
Wtf do I do with my dsi tho
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 17, 2013, 01:54:18 PM
There is no such thing as a 3DSi.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 18, 2013, 03:33:55 AM
There is no such thing as a 3DSi.
I know that, and your point is?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Jul 18, 2013, 11:29:36 AM
Getting an Ouya tomorrow.  We'll see how that goes!
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 18, 2013, 12:17:45 PM
I kind of want to be playing this game:
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 18, 2013, 12:18:04 PM
Getting an Ouya tomorrow.  We'll see how that goes!

Like this!
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 20, 2013, 05:43:56 PM
Just finished Tomb Raider. Oddly, even though I've had it on PS3 for a while, I started and finished it on PC. Graphics were much better, and it was easier to see hidden stuff. It was much longer than I'd originally thought, but it was good, even if it was Uncharted starring Lara Croft.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jul 21, 2013, 09:57:45 PM
I was playing Saints Row 3 but drifted away from it. Played some Torchlight 2 with my buddy Scott-o.
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Post by: Rumble on Jul 31, 2013, 01:55:14 PM
I tried playing some Dragon Age on the xbox, but got bored with it within the hour
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 31, 2013, 10:32:37 PM
I was playing Saints Row 3 but drifted away from it. Played some Torchlight 2 with my buddy Scott-o.
Isn't SR4 out this week?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Aug 02, 2013, 03:59:44 PM
Started XCOM Unknown. Started playing some Torchlight 2 with a buddy as well.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 08, 2013, 06:16:21 AM
I just paid $65 to download fucking Pikmin 3 in barely HD. Nintendo need to rethink these Eshop prices.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 08, 2013, 07:37:58 AM
Nintendo need to rethink these Eshop prices.
They obviously dont since they keep getting dem suckerz (read: you)that pay for that shiet
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Aug 08, 2013, 09:54:41 AM
Still playing X-COM Enemy Unknown. Fantastic fucking game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 08, 2013, 11:40:28 AM
Nintendo need to rethink these Eshop prices.
They obviously dont since they keep getting dem suckerz (read: you)that pay for that shiet

I knew what I was doing. Besides we should pay that much for games like Pikmin 3 and The Wonderful 101 if we want them to get sequels. LoZ Wind Waker and Super Mario 3D World won't be getting my Sixty five bucks.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on Aug 08, 2013, 12:19:32 PM
I haven't played a console game in months.  Like... possibly not this year.  So I popped in Bioshock Infinite last night and played for like an hour.  It's nice to play a Bioshock game again.  I haven't actually fought anything yet, I guess games are slow to start and I'm expected to put more time into my first play session.  I think I spend too much time taking in the scenery for my own good.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 08, 2013, 02:55:42 PM


I knew what I was doing. Besides we should pay that much for games like Pikmin 3 and The Wonderful 101 if we want them to get sequels. LoZ Wind Waker and Super Mario 3D World won't be getting my Sixty five bucks.

SUPER MARIO WORLD 3D???!?!??!!?!?
Where should I send my chell?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 09, 2013, 06:24:56 PM
Nintendo of America in 5 years.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 10, 2013, 03:58:56 PM
Been playing a lot of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! and Super Punch-Out! lately.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Aug 10, 2013, 05:43:51 PM
Did you ever beat Mike on that?
I was pretty good at that game when I was a kid, but Tyson wiped the floor with me every time
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 10, 2013, 07:23:42 PM
I could never get past past Glass Joe...that was one tough bastard.




















Nah..I kid, I kid. Did you know there was a version of punch out that didn't have Mike Tyson in it. Instead you fought a guy named Mr. Dream at the end of the game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 11, 2013, 04:02:07 AM
Yeah, that's only version of the game Nintendo sells now. I've bought that game three times now and I still can't get past Soda Popinski.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 11, 2013, 07:10:01 AM
So I reaaally want the 3DS now especially since ive heard so many good things about animal crossings. But the question is should i get it here or in Vietnam. (did i tell you guys im moving there in less than a month?). Heard its cheaper there but might be a fake one. Then again theres the region-locked issue. Might be able to get the games from Hong Kong (so i can get them in english)

Also got as a gift a game of Jaime Oliver for the Dsi. Obviously it sucked
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Post by: Rumble on Aug 11, 2013, 10:35:12 AM
Damn you move around a lot
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 12, 2013, 03:02:59 AM
Well his firm in Tokyo sent him to Europe and while here he just got offered a better job in Vietnam so yeah. I love living in different places, I tend to get bored easily (except in Tokyo) and the weather here is SHIT.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 12, 2013, 12:34:52 PM
I beat Tyson once. I ran it on an emulator and hit save state every time I landed a punch and load state every time he landed one. Of course, it only took him one for a KO. I could get to him on an actual NES, but I never lasted longer than a minute. All winning did was give you the password to the special circuit, so it wasn't worth doing again.

The reason for Mr Dream was that the license for Tyson only lasted something like two or thee years, and by that time he was a known wife abuser, rapist, and no longer champ, so Nintendo was quick to drop him.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 12, 2013, 08:58:48 PM
Well his firm in Tokyo sent him to Europe and while here he just got offered a better job in Vietnam so yeah. I love living in different places, I tend to get bored easily (except in Tokyo) and the weather here is SHIT.


It's Europe. It is why some of us are pasty bastards. Sun doesn't come out much over there.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Aug 13, 2013, 06:44:37 AM
Depends, not here in the North-Western part no, but I just spent a week in Slovenia and nearly got burned alive
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 13, 2013, 09:38:29 AM
Depends, not here in the North-Western part no, but I just spent a week in Slovenia and nearly got burned alive
"got burned alive" by someone from this parts= 25 c , semi cloudy
No but seriously what Rama said totally makes sense. We had one week of weather in the low 30s and that was it. goodbye summer. And this sucks since Im a summer girl. BYE BYE SHIT ASS WEATHER, HELLO 35C 90% HUMIDITY ALL DAY ERRYDAY
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Aug 13, 2013, 11:02:47 AM
Actually it was nearly 40 c in Slovenia
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 14, 2013, 05:58:09 AM
Damn .
Wait isnt that were "Hostel" happened?
Anyways now I know where Im not going in summer
Btw this morning it was 9 celsius here. Its fucking August for gods sake
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Aug 14, 2013, 09:30:15 AM
Damn .
Wait isnt that were "Hostel" happened?
Anyways now I know where Im not going in summer
Btw this morning it was 9 celsius here. Its fucking August for gods sake

Of course, make a decision based on a fictional movie, that makes a lot of sense, totally.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 14, 2013, 02:43:02 PM
Damn .
Wait isnt that were "Hostel" happened?
Anyways now I know where Im not going in summer
Btw this morning it was 9 celsius here. Its fucking August for gods sake

Of course, make a decision based on a fictional movie, that makes a lot of sense, totally.

HURRHURHURHURHUR
I made the decision on 40c during summer, not because of the movie . Anyways Im sure those people (like from the movie) would not waste their time on a latin woman. Top chell goes to the japs
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 14, 2013, 07:19:08 PM
Damn .
Wait isnt that were "Hostel" happened?
Anyways now I know where Im not going in summer
Btw this morning it was 9 celsius here. Its fucking August for gods sake

Of course, make a decision based on a fictional movie, that makes a lot of sense, totally.

There are people that build bunkers to try to survive a zombie outbreak....personally I think that's about as likely as a Frankenstein invasion, but whateves.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Aug 15, 2013, 09:18:09 AM
Do you need a different kind of bunker for a Frankenstein invasion?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: blanktoe on Aug 15, 2013, 10:23:44 AM
Why hasn't anyone made that game yet?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 15, 2013, 04:12:54 PM
Do you need a different kind of bunker for a Frankenstein invasion?

Yes...a fire bunker.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Aug 16, 2013, 05:08:14 PM
Do you need a different kind of bunker for a Frankenstein invasion?

Yes...a fire bunker.

Stocked with pitchforks and torches?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 13, 2016, 06:18:56 AM
Good thing it's just the doctor invading and not the monster he created.  Whew.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on May 13, 2016, 08:01:45 AM
Yes...but which one is the real monster?


Think about it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 13, 2016, 10:20:53 AM
The monster is.  Frankenstein's a scientist, not a lawyer.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on May 13, 2016, 10:14:21 PM
He might be going to night school between mocking God with his creations. You don't know.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 16, 2016, 12:48:11 AM
As of Saturday, Uncharted 4....Charted! I spent about four hours a day on this since Tuesday with the exception of Wednesday. As usual for this franchise, setting it to Easy difficulty is as tough as I'll ever play it. Here's the highlights:

GOOD:
- Probably the finest graphics of any game I have ever seen. The bar has absolutely been raised. Cut-scenes and in-game graphics are indistinguishable.
- The game is HUGE. You can explore much of King's Bay by truck, which is free roam for a large part. And wow, are those islands big!
- Melee combat was drastically scaled back. It's there, but it's very rarely necessary (unless it's the final battle)
- Nathan Drake finally grew up with this, his last adventure. It's nice to see where he and the other characters ended up. This part of the story was great.

BAD:
- The villains are a let-down. Rafe, the main villain, is a dweeb, and Nadine, his muscle, is just sort of there.
- Nate & Co. go against a huge crew of baddies, constantly playing catch-up despite knowing more or less what they're doing...like every other Uncharted game.
- The stealth portion could have been better. Sneaking around in tall grass is fine, but it got old quickly.
- Speaking of getting old, I will never have to worry about having a hankering for mountain climbing. That's most of what I did here.

UGLY
- I hate dark, confined places almost as much as I hate being in high places. So this game pushed all those buttons.
- Hitting one of the right triggers in the previous games reloaded your weapon. Here, it throws a grenade. Guess what I did a lot of?
- I can't believe this is the last Uncharted. But, given the epilogue, it may not be the last time we see a Drake on an adventure...

In the final analysis, this is a great game, and the entire reason I bought a PS4. Uncharted 2 is still the best of the series, but, despite being a bit tired and tedious, I enjoyed it better than 1 & 3, even if the story beats were more or less the same.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on May 18, 2016, 09:55:47 AM
Been playing some Fallout 3 to prepare for my trip to Washington on Saturday 😎
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 19, 2016, 01:30:03 AM
I've just been replaying Chrono Trigger.  Which is why I replied to thread in the first place.  But then I saw the Frankenstein thing.  And I couldn't let that go.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 19, 2016, 09:19:23 PM
Chrono Trigger...I haven't played that since I maxed everybody out on my last save state. Still fun, though.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 21, 2016, 01:05:08 AM
I named Frog "McRib," forgot I named him that, and gave myself a hearty chuckle when I encountered him again.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 04, 2016, 08:32:18 AM
Minish Cap on Wii U. Actually in my top 5 Zeldas.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 04, 2016, 12:11:27 PM
I started and finished a game of Super Mario Bros. 2 last night. It's funny how I still know exactly where to go and what to do (nailed the warps), and it's been probably 15 years since I last played it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 05, 2016, 02:01:40 AM
Like playing a bicycle.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 05, 2016, 07:27:18 AM
Especially when you have Luigi flapping his feet the way he does when he jumps. No wonder he has the best airtime of the four player options.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 06, 2016, 03:15:38 AM
It's a good thing to keep in mind should any of us ever fall from a high place.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Jun 07, 2016, 12:40:55 PM
Still playing some Fallout 4 even though I hate it so much compared to the previous 2 games
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 12, 2016, 01:39:49 AM
Minish Cap on Wii U. Actually in my top 5 Zeldas.
Fuck you. Just... fuck you. Minish is the ultimate garbage of modern Zelda. Fuck you.

Not really. I mean, don't actually go fuck yourself or anything. I just think Minish is trash beyond trash.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 13, 2016, 05:42:06 AM
Not really. I mean, don't actually go fuck yourself or anything.

I'll have you know our Fifi is now an engaged man.  The days of him fucking himself are over reduced somewhat.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Jun 14, 2016, 11:26:55 PM
Give it 6 months, then it will go back to pre-marriage levels.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 09, 2016, 12:33:09 AM
Not playing it but watched vids that were doing a walkthrough of Child of Light.  I like what the game was attempting.  I don't really feel like they quite pulled it off.  For one thing, the game's wrist-slittingly dreary pallete-wise.  The characters (good guys) probably could've been cuter looking.  Most of them looked like they belonged on the island of lost toys.  And the narration's a bit too much.  But certainly an A for effort at least.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 09, 2016, 08:22:20 AM
I've never hopped the crowdfunding train, but I'm tempted to back this:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chevyray/ikenfell

I just really like the way it looks. Pretty apprehensive about video game kickstarters at this point, however. They typically don't end well.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 09, 2016, 08:45:56 AM
Something about the sprite art looks... off.  The sprites seem kinda sloppy.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 09, 2016, 09:13:56 PM
I've been replaying Super Mario World. I'm to the Forest of Illusion and already have opened up all of Star World (but not the Special Zone).
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 19, 2016, 05:05:03 AM
Is anyone doing this Pokemon Go shit?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 19, 2016, 10:45:29 AM
Fuck to the no. I live in a rural area comfortably outside of the main township, though, so I am tempted to see what I might find out in the bush here. Or maybe that's not how it works. The very limited GPS data of my immediate area would more likely yield next to nothing.

All moot, because my phone battery is shot, and pretty much the moment I unplug it from the wall and try to do anything, it dies.

Also, my phone is super old and would probably run the app like shit, as from what I understand the game is poorly optimized and runs like shit for a lot of people anyway.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 20, 2016, 04:47:59 AM
My phone isn't super old but it's cheap.  An inexpensive prepaid one functional enough for what I use it for but not enough so I could run Go on it.  I'd play if I had a better phone, but I'm not paying more for a phone just to play a game on it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 20, 2016, 07:24:53 AM
People would do that, though. People have totally done that.

"Pokemon Go runs like crap on my phone! Time for an upgrade!"

"Pokemon Go still runs like crap on my new phone!"

Etc.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 21, 2016, 09:20:56 PM
I just sort-of finished my first play-through of Super Mario World in  at least fifteen years. I got 95 goals. There are 96. When I was a strapping young buck in my game-playing prime I would purposefully go back and replay every level multiple times until I found that elusive goal. Now, I'm all like:
(http://bonr.shwiggie.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1101.0;attach=5753;image)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 22, 2016, 01:56:09 AM
It turns out the 96th goal was to not waste your time.  It was a test, yo!

People would do that, though. People have totally done that.

"Pokemon Go runs like crap on my phone! Time for an upgrade!"

"Pokemon Go still runs like crap on my new phone!"

Etc.

Ha ha, I know, but I'm not in the income bracket to make that happen.  I'm just happy to have a phone that I can actually surf the internet with now instead of the hot mess I had two years ago that displayed websites as if I were viewing them from the 1990's.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Jul 27, 2016, 09:38:27 AM
I tried to download Pokemon Go just because I was curious and people kept asking me what it was (Because I'm younger then them I'm suppose to know, even though I was too old for the FIRST Pokemon invasion, but whateves.) just so I'd have a visual aid and my phone won't work with it. I'm running too old a version of Android.

But my Phone has been giving me problems and has stopped charging from the USB port, so I'm looking for a new one...and if it is running a new enough Android I might give it a look see. If not, Oh well.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 27, 2016, 10:16:35 PM
I was looking through some threads about SMW after my pronouncement that I was dropping it on the 95th level. I read someone say that many people miss the Forest of Illusion Ghost House has two exits. So, since it was easy to chell, I decided to run through it a couple times just in case.

(http://bonr.shwiggie.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1101.0;attach=5756;image)

So, yup, it was the 96th goal I was missing.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 08, 2016, 08:39:15 AM
Well I got a new phone (not because of Pokemon go, but because my old one would lock up 6-7 times a day) and Pokemon Go works on it and it is an addicting game, but also one that you will get fed up with real quick. After about the first week of playing you will have caught most of the Pokemon that you will now be seeing like 90% of time. If your dream is to say catch your favorite pokemon and then evolve him and train him up....well tough shit asshole! Because you like never find them and you have to find a shit ton of that pokemon to make that happen. So be happy with your starter Chamader because that's all it is ever gonna be.

It also really sucks to live in a rural area. You have to go to pokestops (places like churches, watertowers, graveyard for some morbid reason) to get more shit that you run out of playing the game. Well all the pokestops I have to drive to because there are none near me. And no pokemon either. If I open my nearby pokemon list in my house nothing shows up.....EVER.

Also this is a game for kids and people with no lives. I know this because you can't have a real life and get ahead in the game. Let me site an example. One of goals of the game is to take and hold gyms for your team. I never tried this because the lowest pokemon in most gyms was still twice as powerful as my highest pokemon. But when I was stopping at one of those pokestops that I have to drive to, I noticed a Gym near by with someone I could actually beat it....so I did.

But while I was fighting a big lifted truck pulled in to the quick stop across the street and parked facing the gym and the people inside just stared at me. Strange, but I was getting ready to leave anyway. So I win my fight and put my guy in the gym. No sooner had I done this then my guy got kicked out. So I sent my next guy in and won it back and the same thing happened again. So by now I know what the people in the truck are doing. So I send in another guy and another until I was down to just my shit guys...so I gave up. I got back in my car and these people sat there and made sure I was leaving and then, and only then, did they turn around and leave themselves. I was also told by a friend who does live near the pokestop (as they know this person well) that they circled a few more times after I left, just to make sure I was doubling back. So they saw me attacking the gym and it was so important that they jumped into their car and drove down there to take it back. I don't have time for that kinda bullshit. I got a 40 hour a week job and other stuff to do...I can't sit on my ass, collect gov. cheese and make sure no one takes away my Gym all day. That's crazy.


And let's not get started on the people that sit at home with fake GPS and take gyms and pokemon from the comfort of their couch. 
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 09, 2016, 01:30:28 AM
HAHA, omg.  Defending that gym though.  From most people I hear from, they never get to keep the gym they win.  It does seem like it would be really fun for travelers.  Like people who have to travel across the country for work or something.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 09, 2016, 06:02:16 PM
It kinda is. I was on vacation when I got the game to work and I was fun to run around places and see what they had and where the pokestops where.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 10, 2016, 08:32:23 AM
A follow up to my pokemon Go story above.

So the friend I told you about that does live near the pokestop in question. He knows this woman the same way I know her, she has no life and comes running when you take the gym. So I guess he took the gym away from her again (something he does often He has told me.) and she actually confronted him and yelled at him to stop taking her gym while he was walking his dog.

Yeah this lady is cra-cra. I worry she might have a gun in a gun rack in that lifted truck of hers that she might think is a good idea to break out and use on people that take "her" gym.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 10, 2016, 05:19:18 PM
Hahaha...

Don't you love it when a shared love of gaming brings people together?

Holy shit.

I'm playing No Man's Sky. Seems fun so far, but I could see it getting stale in a hurry. I need a better ship so I can try out the starfighting. Mine's a piece of junk right now.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 12, 2016, 06:18:56 AM
A follow up to my pokemon Go story above.

So the friend I told you about that does live near the pokestop in question. He knows this woman the same way I know her, she has no life and comes running when you take the gym. So I guess he took the gym away from her again (something he does often He has told me.) and she actually confronted him and yelled at him to stop taking her gym while he was walking his dog.

Yeah this lady is cra-cra. I worry she might have a gun in a gun rack in that lifted truck of hers that she might think is a good idea to break out and use on people that take "her" gym.

"Git way from muh gym!" *cocks shotgun*

^ It's the "git offa muh lawn" for this century.  You should publish the location of the gym on multiple Pokemon boards and then watch her go nuts.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 12, 2016, 09:54:13 AM
It's ok. I took it away from her again.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 13, 2016, 12:37:50 AM
 :happy:  Good!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 14, 2016, 12:55:19 AM
It's not good! I just became what I hate!  :disgust:
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 14, 2016, 12:56:26 AM
Bored of NMS already. Hoped it would last a few weeks at least. Gonna try that Telltale Batman game next.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 14, 2016, 01:44:58 AM
It's not good! I just became what I hate!  :disgust:

Good.  Good.  Let the hate flow through you.


Bored of NMS already. Hoped it would last a few weeks at least.

*looks at date of other post*  Dude, four days?  (Or maybe technically three, I guess.)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 14, 2016, 02:22:13 PM
I know, right. I'll probably go back to it at some point, but for now I've had enough.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 03, 2016, 06:53:35 AM
Attack on Titan! This is why I went back and finished watching the anime, so I wouldn't be spoiled. Flying around, slicing up Titans is pretty damn satisfying, I gotta say. Also, punching and kicking whenever the story calls for it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 03, 2016, 10:57:47 PM
Madden 17. The first Madden game I've played since '98...well, not counting that Madden 2000 game I got for PC, as it refused to run and was subsequently snapped in half. These games are more like action RPGs at this point, but with far more intricate controls.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 07, 2016, 10:34:44 PM
Okay, so, I bought a huge 4K TV a couple weeks ago. I don't know how I lived all this time without it. Okay, so I haven't actually watched any 4K or HDR stuff aside from a few demos (which don't stream well over my powet line network, so I get to install a #(*)Q&%#$!@# Cat5 in the living room at some point), and I don't have the fast enough innerwebs to stream Nutflex or teh YooToobs (which I frankly have issues with at 360p, let alone 2160p). But I was interested in getting one of the new 4K UHD Bluray players to have the latest and greatest. Since I have 24 months to pay it off before interest kicks in, I figured I'd let it all hang out, right?

I noticed Microsoft has released the Xbox One S, a slimmer version of that console that has the UHD Bluray drive in it...the cheapest way to get that functionality. I haven't rolled with Xbox since the original. So I figured I'd wait for PS4 Neo/PS4.5/PS4K to be announced to see what it had to offer, since it was more of a hardware upgrade, and I'd like to stick with Sony.

So today was the day for the revelation: guess what? No UHD Bluray player for Neo PS4 Pro. What about 4K gaming? There's no way PS4 Pro will be capable of running games in full 2160p when today's most powerful gaming PCs are just now conquering that plateau. 1440p is not sufficiently better than 1080p in my opinion. What about HDR? Sony also announced today that HDR was coming to the regular PS4 next week via software update. So there goes any reason for me to buy it.

BTW, the new One S does HDR, too, with slightly upgraded internals to make it happen. And it has UHD Bluray. So they're essentially at parity, except for the UHD disc player.

So...it looks like I'll be rocking a dual gaming setup soon. Way to blow it, Sony.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 08, 2016, 03:08:42 AM
From what I understand, the PS4 Pro won't display native 4K, it will simply upconvert to 4K. Like you said, there's no way in hell something with those weak guts is going to output 2160p. I really don't understand why we're supposed to want the Pro. It seems like a half-measure. And Microsoft also has that Scorpio thing on the horizon, which supposedly will do true 4K games.

Are you a PC gamer at all? It's been forever since I've been, but it's looking more and more tempting to get back into it all the time. To my knowledge, every Xbox "exclusive" going forward will also be available for Windows, and that's obviously going to be the best version of every multiplatform game.

Honestly, I'm fucking tired of platforms. I just want to play games, for Christ's sake.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Sep 09, 2016, 04:46:09 AM
Not really related to what you said but, man, are the abundance of consoles ever alienating to people like me.  I don't want to buy this thing and that thing.  I don't want a bunch of different games to be played on x number of systems.  Thank God for roms.  Like the whole DVD/Bluray thing.  I wish I could just buy a download package for a movie or show like buying mp3 and flac files for music.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 09, 2016, 09:16:14 PM
The Xbox One S already does HDR, and all PS4s (as of next week) will be as of next week. Additionally, the Xbone S already does 4K upscale. The PS4 Pro will probably do better than 1080p...probably 1440p...and upscale to 4K from there, since they're saying framerates won't suffer. It may well do 4K in spurts, but it'll have to be piecemeal, like with static to very slow scenes or backgrounds. 4K upscaling looks pretty good and generally better than 1080p (depending on the hardware...it's one reason I got a Samsung TV), just not as good as native 4K.

When I built my media server in 2013, I built it to handle gaming pretty well...the main title I played on it was that year's Tomb Raider, and the PS3 version I had up until then was a pale reflection of the PC version. But I hate playing at my computer. When I upgraded video cards last year (from a Radeon something or other to a GeForce 970), I was able to mirror it to another PC on the same network, meaning I could play PC games on my Atari HTPC without lag. But the quality wasn't as great, which defeated the purpose. Plus, the big game I played on it was Arkham Knight, which had major issues on PC; granted, I didn't have most of those issues, but the console versions were superior from everything I saw, which soured me. PC gaming is the red-headed stepchild of the industry, and I was in the wrong place as I don't have the patience to wait for people to get their act together, update hardware periodically for maximum effect (which annoys me about the way consoles are headed...make them modular with replaceable subsystems and peripheals, but wholesale changes are for the birds), and be restricted to the back room all the while.

I think Microsoft is moving towards platform integration based on the current dual availability and the early upgrade via Scorpio. Xbone already basically runs Windows, so it makes perfect sense for Scorpio to essentially be a wholly PC-compatible console. Convergence is on their calendar.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 10, 2016, 12:19:57 AM
I've heard HDR is really only a thing on newer 4K sets, so the fact that Sony is "offering it up" so to speak to all current users, is kind of an empty gesture.

What bugs me is the constant focus on resolution. It's always more, more, more, and frame rate typically gets left in the dust. That new Mass Effect game, for instance, will be playable in 4K! ...at 30fps! Like, fucking really? Okay, but the standard 1080p version must fare better, right? Nope. Also 30fps. And with frequent drops and stuttering, I'll bet.

Remember back when console games were built from the ground up with consoles in mind? And you'd see shit that would make you think, "Oh wow, I never imagined this hardware was capable of this!"

Now all the big games are built on supercomputers and then whittled down until they work, barely, on comparatively meager console specs. I really hate that.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 12, 2016, 11:53:48 AM
That was how we got Donkey Kong Country, though, so I'll allow it. But I also remember when most games were shipped without needing patches on day 1 just to work properly. But here we are.

So I got an Xbox One S. As mentioned earlier I got it for the 4k BluRay capability, but I'll tell you right now that I picked up Tomb Raider 2 on it since it was a year exclusive. I know it's coming out next month for PS4, but I feel like sticking it to Sony a bit. It's amazing how similar the new Tomb Raiders are to Uncharted. What's not similar is the Xbox vs. the PS4 in terms of menus and setup. Xbox is a hot, wet mess in comparison.

And I must say... The 4k thing is nice, but the HDR thing is really where it's at.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 25, 2017, 11:53:37 PM
Played a little of Don't Starve: Shipwrecked.  I really want to play Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir, but I'd have to buy, like, EVERYTHING.  As in the game and console.  I can't justify that expense right now when I'm saving for other things and barely have time to play as it is.  But the Don't Starve pack was, like, 26 bucks on Steam so I just got it for my birthday.  I think I only like Shipwrecked though and not so much the rest of Don't Starve.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 27, 2017, 06:37:48 PM
Finally got good internet, and play games online. So I went and got me a PS4 and Overwatch and have been playing that like crazy.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 28, 2017, 01:37:03 PM
Spent most of my Sunday with Shipwrecked. I like how I can customize my world to make the game easier. Lame, but it makes learning to play more fun when I don't die so soon.

Overwatch looks really cool but I don't think I could actually play it.
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Post by: Rama on Aug 28, 2017, 11:31:45 PM
I didn't think I could at first either, but it was easy to pick up. I got it like last month and I'm already at level 112.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 04, 2017, 08:44:49 PM
I got Uncharted The Lost Legacy game and beat it a couple weeks ago. It amounts to about half of a regular Uncharted game for 2/3rds the price, but I still enjoyed it. I always liked Chloe, so playing as her was fun. In all honesty, it was not substantially different from playing as Nate Drake, but that was a good thing. I really enjoyed it, but unless they rebuild the Vita Uncharted game for a real console release, this is likely the last one.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Sep 05, 2017, 08:36:24 AM
SO i finally got another wii (got it in Hong Kong, they also gave me an USB with like 50 games, including the zeldas and all the marios) so me and my tribe are playing the fuck outta Mario Kart. Cant wait to play Mario Galaxy :3
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Post by: Rama on Sep 05, 2017, 10:18:21 PM
Started Dragon Age: Inquisition.
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Post by: Rama on Sep 20, 2017, 04:00:11 PM
Playing Destiny 2.

speaking of which anyone else playing this on the PS4? Looking for clan mates for raids over here.,
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 20, 2017, 08:48:21 PM
I've been rebuilding my Raspberry Pi 3 box with a new version of RetroPie that incorporates a mass-system downloader from a site called GameWizard.ca. It basically installs on an SD card, and when you run it you can pull an entire system's worth of games in batches. So, if you want virtually every SNES game released in North America, you can download them all with all the descriptions, ratings, animations, and scrapes for the menu. It's really very slick and greatly simplifies what can be a troublesome part of the experience. Only problem I've had so far is getting Atari 5200 games to load. This takes a lot of the tweaking out of it, which is nice because I've forgotten more about Unix than I remember now. I'm still not done with it, but I figure I've got a lot of stuff to tinker with between Atari 2600, NES, SNES, N64, NeoGeo, Master System, and Genesis installs. Though I've GOT to get arcade Ms. Pacman with the speedup hack on here PDQ...
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 02, 2018, 08:41:31 PM
Oh, let's do the Odyssey
Odyssey-- Ya, see!
Odyssey-- Ya, see!
Odyssey-- Ya, see!
Odyssey-- Ya, see!
Odyssey-- Ya, see!
Odyssey-- Ya, see!
Odyssey-- Ya, see!
Odyssey, Odyssey!
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 02, 2018, 08:42:52 PM
Also, fuck EA with a rusty spoon.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 03, 2018, 05:18:42 PM
I bought an nvidia Shield TV last month and finally got RetroArch setup on it. It's not full-featured yet, and the emu for NeoGeo is inexplicably laggy, but I'm pleased with it. It's not as shway as the GameWizard install on the Pi, but it's far more flexible and powerful, and I think I can pimp it out once I start figuring things out.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 12, 2018, 01:48:42 AM
So bought a Switch and have been playing Mario kart and loving it. I love how all the characters and races are unlocked from the beginning <3
Bought Odyssey too but havent played that yet. Next will be Zelda but tbh I dont know when I will have time to play it, its very time consuming and I havent even played Majora and OOT (that I got for the 3ds years ago).
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 12, 2018, 08:29:47 PM
So bought a Switch and have been playing Mario kart and loving it. I love how all the characters and races are unlocked from the beginning <3

What? B-but where's the reward for a solid work ethic? :(
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 14, 2018, 06:12:52 AM
What gets unlocked when you win races are cars and car parts. I did read somewhere that if you finish all the races in 1st place you get Golden Mario.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 14, 2018, 09:12:34 AM
That sounds like Trump peed on him or something. :blink:
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 15, 2018, 06:48:33 PM
Is he yuge?
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 16, 2018, 08:01:38 AM
Yeah, Faye, is he yuge? Or just a normal-sized peed on Mario?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 16, 2018, 09:24:42 AM
I dont understand the joke  :joe: Does Dumps says "yuge"?
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 16, 2018, 12:14:20 PM
Yes. Yuge = Huge.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 17, 2018, 05:26:57 PM
It's new yorkian for "not a little bit bigger than large".
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jan 27, 2018, 06:21:12 AM
I really want to try Hand of Fate 2 and Armello. I've been watching some streams and at first I was all "ugh" :nurinono: at Armello, like, "what AM I looking it" but then as I got to understand it, I was all "hey" :nuriyes:
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 23, 2018, 09:15:32 PM
I started playing Armello and it's just as fun as it looks. It's basically a digital board game. Rng and players ganging up and gunning for you (in multiplayer) can really bone you. Today was the second time I won and the first time I didn't trip into my victory. It was pretty sweet. I'd say it's too bad you guys don't play it because you can have a friends multiplayer match but, even if you did, I doubt we're all online at the same time anymore anyway.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 24, 2018, 12:49:31 AM
What do you use primarily? PC?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 24, 2018, 04:11:41 PM
I've been playing Legend of Zelda. Not Breath of the Wild...OG LoZ.

I wouldn't bother without a walkthrough, and I found a good one. I do not have the time or patience to push or bomb or burn or whatever every object in an overworld to see if something vital to my mission is there. Dungeon-crawling is more my forte, as it's a defined and confined space with a reasonable start and ending. I generally don't care for open world stuff, as it is just an invitation for developers to insert tons of busy work, i.e., grinding. Dragon Warrior in the eighties broke me from ever wanting to put up with that again, though I did more than my fair share of it in Chrono Trigger over the years.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 24, 2018, 11:44:12 PM
What do you use primarily? PC?

Yep.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 10, 2018, 11:03:31 PM
Star Trek online...but this is kinda a pay to win type game. Yeah I can earn dilthum and then change that move to zen and buy better ships with that...but it'll take months to do that. Or I can just plop down 15 bucks and get it now. Did I mention that's the only way to get the more powerful ships you need to move through the game? Because it is. You only earn ships up to tier 4. After that all cash, cash money y'all!
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 11, 2018, 12:09:57 AM
Star Trek online...but this is kinda a pay to win type game.

Ah, so a Ferengi game.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 11, 2018, 09:47:59 AM
Picked up Horizon Zero Dawn for PS4 for thirty bucks the other day. I like it, but it's one of those "I want to spend time with you" games. Lots of fun, though. The main character is a chick, so yay for womens. Very pretty game, fairly easy to get a grasp on the play mechanics.

And your mentor character is voiced by Garry Chalk, which is good if you're an Optimus Primal fan, but it's aggravating when you keep waiting for a video game character to start saying stupid stuff like "the seeds of the future lie buried in the past" at any moment. Grah, Beast Machines continues to taint everything it's even tangentially related to.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 11, 2018, 01:36:14 PM
I stalled out on Horizon, but I intend to get back to it at some point. Up until recently I was going pretty much non-stop on Monster Hunter World, but this week it's mostly been Tekken 7.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Mar 11, 2018, 01:41:15 PM
Star Trek online...but this is kinda a pay to win type game.

Ah, so a Ferengi game.

Yeah I was like "Doesn't this go against the principles of Starfleet?"
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 13, 2018, 07:12:26 PM
Principles often take a back seat to expediency. High-tech martial econo-communalism isn't necessarily immune to individual laziness or corporate greed than any other civil system.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 14, 2018, 08:01:02 AM
Spoken like a true Janeway.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 14, 2018, 09:06:16 AM
I immediately went back up to his post and totally read that in a Janeway voice.

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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 16, 2018, 10:18:19 PM
I think I saw a Voyager episode once. Maybe on the Borg collection?
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Post by: Rama on Mar 18, 2018, 11:05:06 PM
Probably. The latter half of that show had Borg all over it.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 21, 2018, 12:51:09 PM
Yeah, there's some Voyager eps on that collection.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 21, 2018, 09:49:30 PM
HOLY COW, GUISE. I had the wildest Armello game just now and I have to tell someone about it even if you dudes have no idea what I'm rambling on about nor give a shit. Story time...

So I'm doing a multiplayer game aka playing with other humans instead of against AI. Basics are you pick an animal to play as and you become king (or queen) of Armello to win the game. There's already a king and each turn he loses one health point and gains one rot point, adding to his state of corruption. There are several win conditions and I won't bore you by going through them all but the current king HAS to die at the end. He HAS to. That's the only way the game ends and someone wins. One of the ways you win is by killing the king in a fight. If you happen to have rot points of your own, they have to be above the king's current rot points for you to have the advantage. If your rot points are below the king's when you fight him, he has the advantage in the fight.

So my multiplayer game starts up and my rabbit character has 5 rot points. Which is NOT normal. AT ALL. You either have to equip a special item or play as a certain character to start out with 1 or 2 rot points let alone have 5 from the start. So I'm like, "what the fuck, dude?" It's a special event today so I wonder if this is an added layer to the event. Maybe I started out with an item or something. And then I realize to my horror all four of us have 5 rot points a piece.

This game is currently doing an update event where it rolls out updates until a giant update in the summer. Ever since this event began last month, there's been bug issues. So I'm all "great, another bugged game." It happens, but whatever. We all soldier on.

Now normal games last around 10 or 11 rounds. Each round represents a day and each day the king loses one health point and gains one rot point. I realize 3 rounds in that this fucker ain't dying. He's not losing a single health point. So we can't even wait for him to die. Unless we want to disconnect from the game, we're stuck in a loop. I wonder if the game will stop itself around 10 or 11 rounds automatically. I decide to play under the Prestige Victory condition where I fuck other people up and save towns to gain fame. Once that king dies, I become queen because I'm so fucking famous.

I'm losing count of the rounds now. I realize the game's probably gonna keep going until someone kills the king. The king is still gaining rot points but he's as healthy as ever when he's supposed to be getting weaker and slowly dying so he's easier to kill.

I'm playing with a level 1 player, another level 4 player, and a 65 or something level player. I wonder if any of them realize what's going on and if they're gonna do something about it. There's no way to communicate in the game other than emote as the character you're playing as. The 65 level player looked like he caught on to an idea but then gave up and quit the game around round 9. Boo. That character continues to play as an AI player. The AI is kinda dumb so we can't really rely on that to "save" us.

The other two players that are still people decide to kill me whenever they come across me. I deserved it. I was having fun offing them to gain fame. So, cool, whatever. The other two players are an otter with a spear and a berserker wolf. These dudes are primed to be fighter characters for players who love combat. These two are also collecting a lot of rot points. I had about 11 rot points but they always had more so whenever one of them fought me, I'd give them an 11 advantage every time. My bunny's an architect so--while I can kick ass with her with the right gear--she's not built for fighting like these other two.

I'm resigned to the fact that one of these two guys is gonna win. I figure if I get some good cards, I'll buff whichever one of them challenges the king first. This way they have an increased chance of winning and Groundhog Day will be over.

It
doesn't
happen.

I have no idea why one of these two didn't try to fight the king. The AI character even created a path to the king they could've used but neither one goes for it.

I don't want to quit the game because I'm playing for a double-prize drop at the end of the game. I'll lose my prizes if I quit. But at the same time I'd like the game to end already.

I try drawing cards looking for something to help get rid of this rot. I try to go for one of the other win conditions where you gather spirit stones. I'm not drawing the cards I need. I draw some cards that will give me even more rot points. I'm like "goddamn it, this isn't what I wanted."

I looked to the other two players to see who will go for the king. They're still fucking around. They were both really strong so I don't get why they're not going for it. Either one of them would've had an 11 advantage over the king the same way they had over me. Yeah, the king has an insane amount of hit points. Like 10 or so. For reference, none of us have half that many. You'd have to land at least ten hits against the king without getting killed and that's not including if he rolls a high defense. If he gets 5 shields, you'd need to land 15 hits. That's a really huge number for this game. Since all of us are rotten, we also lose 1 hit point a day so we're never at full health unless we get a healing card.

I've unlocked my own path to the palace a long time ago. And the other two aren't going for it. At this point, the king has the same amount of rot points I do. I take one look at my hand of cards that will give me three more rot points. And I'm like "Fuck it, Beck. Fucking DO THIS."

I get my wabbit into the palace, add two rot points from my hand. Adding it this way also decreases my hit points, so I knocked myself down to 1 hit point doing this. I had to land 10 hit points in excess to any defense he ended up with to beat him AND not get hit in the process in order to win. And I fucking do it perfectly and become Queen. It's so sweet. When you win this way, it's called a Rot Victory. My first one. And I will never forget my first. :)

EDIT: I checked through the forums to see if it was a bug and it actually wasn't. The conditions of the game changed for the special event. I didn't know they changed. I thought the special event had the same conditions from the last time I played it. We all start out rotten and the king doesn't lose hit points with each day. That's really cool actually. I was getting tired and annoyed with the fact the damn king wasn't dying like he's supposed to but good to know.

I kinda want to play again now that I understand what's happening but I have to work tomorrow. Boo. :-\
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Post by: Rama on Mar 23, 2018, 12:38:59 AM
Tldr
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 23, 2018, 12:39:31 PM
I read it all, but having never played Armello myself, I probably didn't understand all of it. I think I get the basic gist, though.

I'm tapering off Monster Hunter. There are still things I could be doing, but the fun is mostly gone. It was great while it lasted.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 23, 2018, 03:48:31 PM
I actually read it all too, but since I didn't know what half of what was going on I just kinda nodded my head and looked for my name.


And I'm still on Star Trek Online. Still grinding away on dilthum. Now I'm getting do much of it. And it only let's me refine 8K a day and I usually have two to three times that much. Ugh!
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 23, 2018, 10:44:46 PM
Ha ha, I should've put a tldr on that shit. I wasn't even thinking. I was just so excited I won in such an unexpected but still calculated method that I was a rambling mess.

I read it all, but having never played Armello myself, I probably didn't understand all of it. I think I get the basic gist, though.

Not gonna lie... when I first saw a video of someone playing Armello, I was like "borrr-ring" and switched to something else. I'm glad I gave it another chance. You have to constantly be on your toes about what's going on in the game, the terrain, what characters are being played, and what's equipped. Advantages and disadvantages come and go like the wind. It is almost impossible to go into the game with a set plan. The lore the makers have built up is also really cool.  The words "Game of Thrones meets Redwall" get thrown around a lot when describing it but, like, you know, without the head-bashing and sibling-fucking.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 24, 2018, 02:21:47 PM


Not gonna lie... when I first saw a video of someone playing Armello, I was like "borrr-ring" and switched to something else. I'm glad I gave it another chance. You have to constantly be on your toes about what's going on in the game, the terrain, what characters are being played, and what's equipped. Advantages and disadvantages come and go like the wind. It is almost impossible to go into the game with a set plan. The lore the makers have built up is also really cool.  The words "Game of Thrones meets Redwall" get thrown around a lot when describing it but, like,


REALLY?!?!?!?! 

you know, without the head-bashing and sibling-fucking.


oh.....nevermind.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 24, 2018, 03:34:09 PM
Haha, yeah. One playthrough I watched was all "warning: cartoon blood." There's just a tiny bit. Not enough to merit a warning.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 24, 2018, 05:02:19 PM
But no sibling fucking?

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Post by: Faye Valentine on Mar 25, 2018, 05:45:55 AM
Oh my (semi) god Kevin Sorbo  :-* :-* :-*
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 26, 2018, 11:16:59 AM
Too bad he's crazy.
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Post by: Rama on Mar 27, 2018, 12:27:47 AM
like a fox...

















....a fox with a severe mental disorder.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Apr 18, 2018, 04:14:20 PM
I tried playing Oxygen Not Included. You basically make a space colony and try to keep every alive as much as possible. I made a colony called "Nuriko's Corner." Me, Faye, and Merla all died of starvation at the same time. Rama hung on as long as he could (pretty impressive; way to go, dude) but still starved near the beds. Toe's close to starving (he keeps drooling) and Fifi just arrived to the colony and is already starting to starve. We gots no food.

Anyone play Clash of Clans? A bunch of my coworkers play it and are trying to convert the rest of us.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 18, 2018, 06:00:47 PM
I never have, but I understand it's one of those free-to-play things that entices you to spend money in order to get ahead of other players.

Like, you can play it without ever spending a dollar, but your ability to succeed will be severely hamstrung.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 18, 2018, 09:11:13 PM
I was gonna buy God of War, seeing as I've bought all the previous major releases and Amazon Prime had 20% off the pre-buy. I figured I'd wait until the reviews came in before I jumped on-board, since it's going to be a significant departure from the previous games. Well, I waited too late: Amazon has shown that it's "Currently Unavailable" since last week. From now on I'll pre-buy the friggin' game and cancel it later if necessary. I just don't believe in paying full price on a damned video game that I will be lucky if I play through once. Hell, I'm still in the early goings of Horizon Zero Dawn and haven't played it in over 2 weeks.
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Post by: Fiero on May 24, 2018, 04:47:45 PM
Hyrule Warriors on Switch. I never got it on Wii or 3DS because it was on both. I found it really annoying that one platform had stuff that the other one didn't. Much better this way.
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Post by: Rama on May 24, 2018, 11:34:46 PM
Still on Star Trek online.

Plugging away to get dilithium. Then trade that in for zen. Then use that to buy a key to unlock lock boxes to get Lobi crystals, to then use those to buy a ship.

I don't think Picard would approve of that.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 27, 2018, 10:13:12 AM
I said to heck with it and got God of War anyway. And that's why I've not been around for the last month. Hoyl carp is it good! I'm at the end now, needing to kill the last Valkyrie and finish the last realm's tasks to wrap things up, and then I might play through again for the hell of it. Horizon what, again?
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Post by: jonhammstein on May 27, 2018, 10:34:25 PM
Still Monster Hunter...
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Post by: Fiero on May 28, 2018, 10:25:39 AM
Still on Star Trek online.

Plugging away to get dilithium. Then trade that in for zen. Then use that to buy a key to unlock lock boxes to get Lobi crystals, to then use those to buy a ship.

I don't think Picard would approve of that.

Are you in Starfleet? The mere idea of you having to purchase something seems wrong.
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Post by: Rama on May 28, 2018, 12:07:06 PM
Why yes I am.

They give you ships based on rank for awhile. But they are pretty standard fair...nothing great. All the good ships you have to buy.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 30, 2018, 12:50:36 AM
Was kinda interested in Omensight but then I found out the ending was shit. Why have a game where you time travel and there's only one ending so all the choices you made were 100% meaningless? Bwuh?
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Post by: Rama on Jun 05, 2018, 02:08:09 AM
Still star trek, but I also played Fortnite and a game called Hawk3n. Hawk3n is really good. Fortnite is really shitty.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 05, 2018, 10:46:07 PM
I saw the credits for God of War. At a certain point I just wanted it to be over, so I dropped down into easy mode to completely trivialize the combat, and ignored all the optional content. The story was alright, but I was so checked out by the end that the final reveal just had very little impact on me.

Maybe it's because Greek mythology is so ubiquitous, making everything in the old games instantly recognizable, but I feel like the Norse setting was really underused here. Or maybe misused is the word. Like maybe they spread themselves a little thin with the whole Nine Realms thing. Dark elves are insects? What? Almost as if they were afraid of seeming unoriginal. Enemy variety on the whole was severely lacking.

Or it could just be that what I'm actually doing is comparing a single PS4 game to the 2 PS2, 2 PSP, and 2 PS3 games that came before it, which is hardly fair. I don't know. Maybe my heart just wasn't in it since I'm still all about that MONSTER HUNTER!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Thinking about checking out that 3DS Monster Hunter RPG now.

God damn it.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 06, 2018, 09:32:40 PM
Enemy repetition was a big issue I had with the game, as well. Older GoW games had that, too, but they weren't as big as this one so it's more of a problem. Fighting ogres and whatnot for the thousandth time sucks, particularly the quick timers. Having more variety with which to dispatch these enemies would have been welcome. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next one, which I assume will be coming before 2020.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 14, 2018, 11:11:24 AM
While everyone else who has a Switch decided to play Fortnite, I decided Paladins was more my thing. And yeah, I'm enjoying it. I can play against AI all day if I don't want to deal with humans so that's nice. I always liked the idea of hero shooters and haven't had a platform to play Overwatch on yet so this works well enough for me.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Jun 14, 2018, 05:47:41 PM
But Overwatch is soooooo goood.
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Post by: Fiero on Jun 15, 2018, 10:46:04 AM
But Overwatch is soooooo goood.

Buy me a gaming rig and I'll try it. Or an XB1X or PS4Pro.
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Post by: Rama on Jun 15, 2018, 12:51:41 PM
Ummmm a regular PS4 or Xbox 1 will play it just fine ya greedy bastard.  >:(
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 15, 2018, 10:42:07 PM
I might have tried Overwatch if I had internet that wasn't crap for gaming.

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a DL-only game set in the same realm as the upcoming Kickstarter game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The series is being steered by the producer of the original Castlevania games. Whereas Ritual of the Night will be a Metroidvania-style like Symphony of the Night, this one was inspired by the NES Castlevania games. I haven't played it in a couple weeks, but I need to get back to it as I'm 3/5 of the way through. It's pretty fun, if you like old-school Castlevania.

I bought Sonic Mania last night. Think Sonic 4 for Genesis in 2018.  Sega found some ROM hackers that were doing new level design and other neat things through emulators, and it looked good enough for them to bankroll it for Sonic's 25th anniversary. It's darn good: a very nice homage to the Genesis-era of Sonic games.

And while fooling around with Sonic Mania, I also found the Mega Man Legacy collection on sale in the PSN Store. $18 got me Mega Man 1-10, which I thought wasn't a bad deal at all. Heck, 2 and 3 are worth that alone. The rest is icing. Luckily I had dropped a card on my account back when I first bought the PS4 that I'd forgotten about, so why not blow it on some old-style games?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 28, 2018, 09:23:51 PM
Picked up Splatoon 2 on sale. Enjoyed the single player stuff, doing the Octo expansion now. I know I'll get wrecked in multiplayer, though, so I might just not do that.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 28, 2018, 09:34:56 PM
Started playing Clash of Clans on my phone.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 28, 2018, 09:42:37 PM
Started playing Clash of Clans on my phone.

Oh god, why?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 30, 2018, 07:27:54 PM
It turns out that I'm still freaking awesome at Mega Man 3. However, it's quite a bit tougher when you don't have that super jump from the original. You could hold down the right directional on controller 2 (I used to hold my toe on it while playing) to have a super jump and invulnerability to pits. Plus, if you ran into an off-top screen enemy, your energy would bottom out but not kill you, making you invulnerable to conventional harm (as in, not hitting spikes or getting crushed) but disabling your main gun. This meant boss fights were supremely easy, unless you had no secondary weapons that worked against them which meant you had to reset the game.

Mega Man 4, however, is a pain in the dick.
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Post by: B E C K on Jun 30, 2018, 10:38:25 PM
Started playing Clash of Clans on my phone.

Oh god, why?

My co-workers play it and got me into it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 30, 2018, 10:44:46 PM
It turns out that I'm still freaking awesome at Mega Man 3. However, it's quite a bit tougher when you don't have that super jump from the original. You could hold down the right directional on controller 2 (I used to hold my toe on it while playing) to have a super jump and invulnerability to pits. Plus, if you ran into an off-top screen enemy, your energy would bottom out but not kill you, making you invulnerable to conventional harm (as in, not hitting spikes or getting crushed) but disabling your main gun. This meant boss fights were supremely easy, unless you had no secondary weapons that worked against them which meant you had to reset the game.

Mega Man 4, however, is a pain in the dick.

I have a fond memory of playing Mega Man all night and drinking Sprite as a kid once. I think it was after I had my one and only seizure, I had to stay up before getting an EKG or something. Went to the Blockbuster, got a 2 liter, and continued to fail at beating Mega Man 2 all fucking night.

Good times.

I never knew about this super-jump thing. That's pretty cool. Too bad there's no way to make it work but I guess it's not surprising.

I decided to go play online in Splatoon 2 after doing the single player stuff (the story parts, not 100% or anything) and I'm definitely not getting past a C+ at best.
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 07, 2018, 01:41:04 PM
Played through most of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker on the Switch. I'm not doing all the bonus challenges right now, though. Those can suck a portabellini for now.

Playing Hollow Knight and wanting to get the 107% completion (100% was before DLC). There's a few late challenges including from DLC which are just the biggest pain in the thorax so I'm not sure if I'll give up or not before attempting the end of the game. Really fun, well-made game. Intriguing lore, compelling story that's not spelled out for you. I like it a lot. Definitely a good deal for <$20.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 07, 2018, 10:19:45 PM
Hollow Knight looks like a nightmare. For me to play, I mean. Especially the, uh, White Palace. I think that's the name of the area. I love the look and feel of the setting and characters tho'. Was fun to watch other people play through it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Aug 08, 2018, 12:58:33 PM
Hollow Knight looks like a nightmare. For me to play, I mean. Especially the, uh, White Palace. I think that's the name of the area. I love the look and feel of the setting and characters tho'. Was fun to watch other people play through it.

The White Palace didn't seem that bad to me, honestly. It's also not required unless you want a specific ending.

It's the late-game bosses that are pissing me off, especially this psuedo-vampire asshole from the DLC called Nightmare King Grimm.
There's also this loser called Zote who is a joke character throughout the game but then you have the option to fight him how he appears to himself in his own mind and it's awful.

I haven't attempted the "final" boss yet because I'd really like to get to 107%.

The game overall is a blast and the lore, setting, and theme are sooo good.

Also, even if you didn't mean it to be, you calling it a nightmare is a fun pun.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 08, 2018, 09:56:54 PM
I love the music for Grimm. All the music is great.

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then you have the option to fight him how he appears to himself in his own mind and it's awful.

If you're talking about the Grey Prince Zote thing, that's not his mind, that's Bretta's mind. You're in her house and you use the nail on her shrine to Zote. Granted, it's because she's buying into Zote's lies about himself but still.
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Post by: Rama on Aug 09, 2018, 06:29:42 PM
Transformers: Forged to Fight.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 09, 2018, 08:39:36 PM
I'm sometimes tempted by such games, but I have this old man approach to cell phone games where I see the title as Transformers: Forged to Microtransact, and I stay away.
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Post by: Fiero on Aug 09, 2018, 09:32:48 PM
I love the music for Grimm. All the music is great.

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then you have the option to fight him how he appears to himself in his own mind and it's awful.

If you're talking about the Grey Prince Zote thing, that's not his mind, that's Bretta's mind. You're in her house and you use the nail on her shrine to Zote. Granted, it's because she's buying into Zote's lies about himself but still.

That actually makes sense since each time you win it affects her opinion of him. Shit, you know more about parts of the game than I do. How much have you watched someone play this?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Aug 10, 2018, 10:05:10 PM
I'm sometimes tempted by such games, but I have this old man approach to cell phone games where I see the title as Transformers: Forged to Microtransact, and I stay away.

Oh it is. But it is a little more fair then some of the others.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 11, 2018, 03:48:14 PM
I love the music for Grimm. All the music is great.

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then you have the option to fight him how he appears to himself in his own mind and it's awful.

If you're talking about the Grey Prince Zote thing, that's not his mind, that's Bretta's mind. You're in her house and you use the nail on her shrine to Zote. Granted, it's because she's buying into Zote's lies about himself but still.

That actually makes sense since each time you win it affects her opinion of him. Shit, you know more about parts of the game than I do. How much have you watched someone play this?

I watched one full playthrough before the dlcs dropped and then had to hunt for dlc stuff here and there because the guy I watched didn't bother with them. So I've seen a few people tackling the other material.

I've seen some of the guys I'm following playing Bit Kid's Chasm. Another Metroidvania: not on Hollow Knight level but the playthroughs I watched pegged it as enjoyable. And it's short, too. Might be worth a try if you're looking for something post-Hollow Knight.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Aug 13, 2018, 12:56:39 AM
Yeah, that does look fun. Sadly not on Switch, which is my primary gaming platform for now. I've been looking at Axiom Verge, Iconoclasts, and Steamworld Dig 2 but none seem like they'll have the same charm.

More DLC expected for Hollow Knight late August, so that's cool.

Also have the option of the Steel Soul mode but I don't think that's for me.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 14, 2018, 05:59:30 PM
I heard they were looking into a Switch version. I tried watching a stream of Axiom Verge and it didn't interest me. I saw about 80% of an Iconoclasts stream just so I could see the story through. It gets a bit dark and I wanted to know how it ended.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 14, 2018, 09:43:57 PM
Axiom Verge is a game I've plinked at a bit, but haven't jumped in whole hog yet. I'm probably going to read some walkthroughs to get an idea of what the heck I'm supposed to be doing. It's definitely in the vein of OG NES Metroid which I hate due to just leaving you to wander around the world and hash it out over time. I never had the patience for that as a kid, and now I don't have the time to, either.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rumble on Aug 20, 2018, 12:06:57 PM
I've been playing the 8 bit Mega Man collection on Xbox.
.... and heavily abusing the save game option 😅
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Aug 22, 2018, 02:50:12 PM
Axiom Verge is a game I've plinked at a bit, but haven't jumped in whole hog yet. I'm probably going to read some walkthroughs to get an idea of what the heck I'm supposed to be doing. It's definitely in the vein of OG NES Metroid which I hate due to just leaving you to wander around the world and hash it out over time. I never had the patience for that as a kid, and now I don't have the time to, either.

I heard it has an ability which lets you glitch blocks intentionally so that you can walk through them. That's about all I know about it but it's definitely a metroidvania, yeah.

I tried A Flame in the Flood and did not much care for it. I forgot it was a survival game but it was on sale so I said screw it. I should not have said screw it. There are parts of the game which are genuinely fun- like rafting -but the survival aspect, especially getting murdered by wolves or boars and dying from starvation or exposure are just not fun for me. Oh well.

Hollow Knight: Godmaster comes out tomorrow but I won't get to play until Friday as tomorrow I've got a Seafall campaign. (Legacy-style board game with boats. We don't have enough people here who play board games to talk about that stuff, I guess.)
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 05, 2018, 02:18:16 AM
Dragon Quest XI.

It's really Dragon Questy.
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Post by: Fiero on Sep 08, 2018, 11:01:23 PM
Hollow Knight: Godmaster appeared to really just be boss-rush mode. Meh. If I find out some amazing discovery is found, maybe I'll come back. Whenever they get around to the paid DLC I'll get into it again.

Played Steamworld Dig 2. Completed everything except the post-game crazy ass challenges.

Currently playing The Messenger. It's pretty rad except that I think one of the NPCs is maybe broken because it won't give me a new clue. I also think it's money system is broken. With Hollow Knight I had reasons to seek money well into the end-game. Here, I've bought everything I can buy before even knowing what the end-game really looks like.

That said, the platforming is extremely fun. Some of it is brutally hard but there's enough checkpoints in most areas that you don't feel too punished by it.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 09, 2018, 01:10:26 PM
Dragon Ball FighterZ. It was on-sale and was interesting given that it looks better than the actual show. It's a fairly one-dimensional fighting game with dull story elements, but what really drags it down is the fact that it is sooooooo sloooooooooow betweeeeeeeen baaaaaaaaaatles. Load times suck, and it makes me regret not getting a SSD for my PS4 when I was trying to decide how best to upgrade storage.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Sep 14, 2018, 02:45:24 PM
Turns out the NPC wasn't broken in The Messenger, I just managed to do a section without a key item that's supposed to make it possible.

I've 100%ed that so now I'm thinking Dead Cells will be the next metroidvania jam.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Sep 14, 2018, 04:28:26 PM
I picked up Spiderman PS4 the other day. I'm only twenty minutes into it, and the most I can say about it is that it's an Arkham Spidey game, and that it is a good thing.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Sep 15, 2018, 10:23:25 AM
I picked up Spiderman PS4 the other day. I'm only twenty minutes into it, and the most I can say about it is that it's an Arkham Spidey game, and that it is a good thing.

But couldn't the Arkham games be described as Spider-many Batman game? He's even got spider-sense.

Either way, yeah, I've heard the same. It looks good enough that I wish I had a PS4.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 15, 2018, 04:53:45 PM
I've been playing SNK Heroines. It's trash, but it did remind me that Shermie from KoF looks like an amalgamation of two of Beck's Saber Doll avatars from back in the day. Actually, I wonder which came first, because she might be exactly that. '90s fighting game characters are known for drawing inspiration from manga.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 19, 2018, 05:14:55 AM
I'll finally get to play Hollow Knight on PS4 next week. Looking forward to that.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 30, 2018, 03:28:17 PM
Blazed through Hollow Knight. Man, what a game. Holy shit.

I've still got some cleanup to do, missing some charms and whatnot, I'll definitely come back to it at some point.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 01, 2018, 01:22:44 PM
I'm trying out Undertale since it hit Switch.

I just went on a date with a skeleton... and got rejected at the end. Wow.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 06, 2018, 07:45:55 PM
Wished you streamed, Joe. Would've like to see you tackle that palace.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 07, 2018, 12:05:24 AM
Wished you streamed, Joe. Would've like to see you tackle that palace.

I'm fairly certain you would have given up on me long before I reached the end. I can't remember the last time a game frustrated me to that degree.

I think fighting The Radiance might have pissed me off more, but it didn't take me nearly as long. Also, that ending was well worth it.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 09, 2018, 04:17:32 PM
Wished you streamed, Joe. Would've like to see you tackle that palace.

I'm fairly certain you would have given up on me long before I reached the end. I can't remember the last time a game frustrated me to that degree.

Don't underestimate the entertainment value of someone else's frustration.  ;D
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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 09, 2018, 05:00:37 PM
I'm mostly non-verbal while playing, but I had more than a few outbursts while traversing the White Palace.

And honestly, considering what the rest of Hollow Knight is, it seems a little dirty that they would have players overcome a series of brutal platforming sequences the like of which simply do not exist anywhere else in the game, just to see the true ending. It reminded me of all those crazy custom levels people would create in Super Mario Maker.

But it was damn satisfying to reach the end.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Nov 02, 2018, 09:38:07 AM
And honestly, considering what the rest of Hollow Knight is, it seems a little dirty that they would have players overcome a series of brutal platforming sequences the like of which simply do not exist anywhere else in the game, just to see the true ending. It reminded me of all those crazy custom levels people would create in Super Mario Maker.

And having an entire set of even harder extra challenges in that same area just to get a bit of extra lore and watch a tiny cut-scene.

I'm playing Guacamelee now that it suddenly appeared on the Switch without warning. It's pretty fun but I find myself less interested in going for 100% like I did with Hollow Knight.

Also, Super Mario Party is plenty of fun. I don't think it's the best the series has ever had but it's got plenty of fun for what it is.
Also, the best parts of it aren't the central classic Mario Party. The rhythm games, the down-river boating, and the two-on-two games are much better.

Smash Bros Ultimate is looming in the fairly near future and looks to have an insane amount of content.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 13, 2018, 10:07:10 PM
I couldn't even watch one of the streamers I follow play Guacamelee. Actually, he was playing the sequel. Still... It looked boring. Yeah, okay, the Mexy aspect of it doesn't exactly appeal to me... but, meh, looked boring.

Not playing this but Pathfinder Kingmaker looks fun. Watching several people's streams of that.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 14, 2018, 03:46:53 AM
Guacamelee is deceptively dull. The combat especially felt like a chore to be overcome. I played through the first one, definitely not interested in going back for a second helping.

I blasted through RDR2 in like a week and a half, and it was fucking amazing. That being said, after the credits rolled I had zero desire to continue. There's plenty of stuff I could still do, but I always end up at the same conclusion with R*'s games, and that is to say, once the story is over, the world feels completely dead to me.

Now I'm chugging through Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory, and as much of a shameless recycling it is of the previous game, I'm still enjoying it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jan 03, 2019, 01:39:16 PM
Unlocked all the guys in Smash and was working on World of Light but I don't know if I actually care about beating it.

Finished the main story in Pokemon Let's Go Eevee and debating whether to bother with filling out the pokedex or fighting the specialized trainers.

Played through The Way Remastered. It's apparently made a bit easier in the remaster as I've looked up walkthroughs several times that have puzzles I never saw while playing. Ended up with the aliens. Don't think I care about playing through for the other ending. There were a couple of spots that were absolute bullshit in this game, though.

Also did the main story on Starlink. Heard they added sandworms but I don't think I can be assed to deal with that. Glad I didn't buy any extra bits beyond the Arwing starter set.

Looking forward to the Super Mario U re-release.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 03, 2019, 05:09:09 PM
I 100%ed Spiderman. Guess I can move on to Red Dead 2 now, at least until they drop the Spidey DLC price.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Feb 03, 2019, 10:57:19 PM
I kinda wanna play the dating sim Monster Prom but most of these students are as unlikable as they are hot.  I might just content myself with watching playthroughs but, damn, the illiteracy of some folks really slaps you in the face.  There's a character named Liam and, like, three different playthroughs had people pronouncing it "lime."  If you can't English, you really pull me out of the experience.  And these aren't ESL people either.  Jeez.  I might just have to play it because I can't find playthroughs of some of the endings. I wanna see all the endings dammit.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 04, 2019, 04:28:44 PM
Monster Prom dating sim endings? Are we talking like NSFW, or...?

I went through Kingdom Hearts III last week. It was kind of short. And a little empty. This time around the 100 Acre Wood is literally one tiny little area with three mini-games that are all basically the same mini-game. You could potentially complete it in a single visit. No Kanga. No Owl. NO EEYORE. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU EXCLUDE EEYORE.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 04, 2019, 08:44:48 PM
NSFW in that there's cursing, crass jokes, and lewdness a-plenty. No pr0n or anything like that.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 16, 2019, 01:52:54 AM
You guys see this shit?


Hnnnnnnnnnnnngh!
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 17, 2019, 10:12:50 PM
Holy crap, it's a whole new game instead of just a DLC. That's cool. Can't wait to watch a playthrough. (Because I can't play this sort of game. Ho ho.)
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 22, 2019, 10:07:50 AM
You guys see this shit?


Hnnnnnnnnnnnngh!

I'm pretty fucking stoked for it. I wish we had a release date to endlessly wait for.

I've been playing Wargroove. I stopped for a bit near the end because I don't really like the missions where you can't make new units (especially when your opponent can crank a new one out each turn). Ceaser is too fucking cute.

Also started Wonder Boy and the Dragon's Trap. It's an old Sega Master System game that I've never played, playing the remaster on Switch. It's actually pretty good but really difficult, particularly due to some of the sort of game design tropes that exist in old games. Specifically, things attacking you out of fucking nowhere with no indication that they're coming, particularly when an enemy is barely on screen.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 22, 2019, 04:11:39 PM
Dragon's Trap is nice. The redone graphics and audio? So good.

I've got my eye on Monster Boy. Maybe when it goes on sale.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Feb 22, 2019, 11:28:36 PM
I still kinda wanna play Monster Prom but I'm watching playthroughs of the latest content and some of it is a little too cut-and-paste from Tumblr even for my tastes. More hot monsters and less woke lessons please.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 08, 2019, 02:24:46 AM
The latest iteration of Super Robot Wars came out recently, and they added Cowboy Bebop to the mix for the first time ever.

This is Spike's ultimate attack and it is fucking glorious:

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Jun 19, 2019, 02:07:52 PM
Cadence of Hyrule is a lot of fun. Wish i'd grabbed Crypt of the Necrodancer previously because I probably would have enjoyed that more before playing this, though I have seen it stated that COTN is still a harder a game, so maybe that's enough to still pick it up eventually.

E3 sucked again this year. I'm not looking forward to much that I didn't already know existed.
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 11, 2019, 11:26:24 AM
Super Mario Maker 2 is as fun as the original but holy heck is Nintendo bad at online services.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 03, 2019, 10:48:20 PM
Anybody playing Fire Emblem Three Houses?  I'm not because I don't have a Switch nor the time but I'm obsessed with Let's Plays of this shit. I'm watching someone trying to solo this with just the main player character on Maddening and one of the NPCs that can't die on the stage they were on kept suiciding himself.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 04, 2019, 03:00:11 PM
Christ, that sounds like a special kind of obsession. Not you, the guy playing.

Have you watched anybody play Blasphemous or River City Girls? Those were some good, relatively short games I've gone through recently.

Right now I'm on and off with Borderlands 3, and coming up on the end of The Surge 2. Surge is one of the ugliest, jankiest, most outdated "new" games I've played in recent memory, but the combat is mostly on point. The story goes on a little longer than I would have liked, though.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 06, 2019, 09:11:12 PM
I watched a Let's Play of River City Girls and it was kinda disappointing. It started off cute and had potential.

I know some of the people I follow were doing Blasphemous and Borderlands 3. I'm not really interested in Borderlands 3 but I might go ahead and try watching some of Blasphemous since you said it's shortish.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Fiero on Oct 10, 2019, 02:20:50 PM
Playing lots of Link's Awakening and Celeste. Also tried NeoCab, it was eh. Demo made it feel like the story would be more interesting than it ultimately was.

Annoyed that this thread reminded me that Silksong still isn't out. Spurred by my annoyance, decided to google it. There's a playable demo at PAX Australia. Figures they'd make it playable somewhere that doesn't even exist.
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Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2019, 11:04:17 PM
I watched some LPs of Indivisible.  Which is being called an RPG (don't really see how) and a Metroidvania (don't really see that either).  It's basically a platformer in which you recruit a group of folks to fight stuff along the way but you can only rotate 3 out of 4 party slots.  You can't actually customize the characters either save for a palette swap.  It's a visually beautiful game, I like the music, most of the voice acting, and it seemed to have potential. 

Meh, I dunno, probably trying to have 20+ playable characters wasn't the best thing to do.  It should've gone Chrono Trigger with a small, curated cast and made some of the others they wanted to make playable as villains instead.

The story wasn't very tight.  The character's dad died and his death doesn't seem to really matter in anything.  The premise is that all of the other party characters are trapped in the main character's mind but then apparently they can just leave freely later so that make no damn sense.

Any choice you make has no real bearing on anything. It's all an illusion of choice.

The main character can be annoying. Some of the other characters can be as well. (Razmi's shtick gets old for me frankly.) There's lot of cringe OCs in the background from the backers of the game. In fact, talking to most OCs is completely fucking pointless and does nothing for your immersion.

Also there's very little in the way of strategy and it basically turns into a button masher with balancing issues by the end.

It got a sweet opening at least:

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Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 21, 2019, 11:50:33 AM
I watched my cousin play some of that. He was telling me how optional characters don't even get voiced dialog when you first meet them, and that just blew my mind. Like, they're fully voiced during battles, you couldn't have given them some spoken lines for their introductions? You know, just to add some flavor to this new person we're supposedly meant to care about? Fucking weird.

And yeah, the incongruity of the background backer OCs is WILD. Like, most of them don't even come close to fitting the aesthetic of the game's world. And some of the shit they spout is just utterly bizarre.

At least, I'm assuming they're all inserts from people who funded the game. That was the only sense I could make of it.
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Post by: Fiero on Oct 30, 2019, 10:26:11 AM
I was trying to finish Celeste before Luigi's Mansion 3 is out on Friday, not sure I'm going to make it. And really wanting to play Untitled Goose Game and wishing I had something to play The Outer Worlds on.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 02, 2019, 10:15:41 PM
I've watched some LPs of Untitled Goose Game around when the game first came out. Cute but I don't see myself figuring out how to do half of the things you need to do to chell off the lists.

I've also been watching a LP of Luigi's Mansion 3. I actually didn't have any interest in this but was curious since some of the streamers I watch were all doing this one. Because I'm watching a husband and wife duo play this and I like their banter, I think they're making the LP very interesting on their own. The game itself is not something I've been even remotely tempted to buy like Fire Emblem or Monster Prom.

Watching some Dragon Quest XI. I don't know what it is about Dragon Quest the franchise that just makes it seem so... so... fuckin' bland. I've tried to get into this franchise before because it seems like--on paper anyway--it should jive with my interests. I watched a bit of an LP on the Definitive Edition of XI for the Switch and for every part of the game where it seemed to get interesting, something boring or stupid would happen. Like it ramps up the momentum and then immediately takes the wind out of its own sails with some dull task or "dungeon." Meh. It doesn't help that I don't really care of Toriyama's designs. They frankly looked kinda ugly in this game.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 04, 2019, 10:44:37 AM
Watching some Dragon Quest XI. I don't know what it is about Dragon Quest the franchise that just makes it seem so... so... fuckin' bland. I've tried to get into this franchise before because it seems like--on paper anyway--it should jive with my interests. I watched a bit of an LP on the Definitive Edition of XI for the Switch and for every part of the game where it seemed to get interesting, something boring or stupid would happen. Like it ramps up the momentum and then immediately takes the wind out of its own sails with some dull task or "dungeon." Meh. It doesn't help that I don't really care of Toriyama's designs. They frankly looked kinda ugly in this game.

I liked Dragon Quest Builder's a bit but that's basically Minecraft with a plot to explain why you're doing such insane things, and I think not as flexible as Minecraft (pretty sure there's nothing like redstone and stuff that uses it). Tried to play the DQIX demo and just... ugh.

Loving Luigi's Mansion 3. It's not incredibly challenging nor does it have more than a passing semblance to a plot but its got its charms. I've not played the first two games in the series but I can't imagine this being much different than those, except for the coop option.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 04, 2019, 02:36:38 PM
I don't know what it is about Dragon Quest the franchise that just makes it seem so... so... fuckin' bland.

You're far from alone in feeling this way. DQ is perpetually stuck in a rut of generic JRPG medieval fantasy cliches partnered with stale Toriyama character designs. I tried and tried to get into XI, and it just fucking bored me to sleep.

I remember absolutely loving DQVIII on PS2, having spent very little time with any other game in the series. Maybe that's why I don't like this one. It's the realization that they're just regurgitating the same game over and over until the end of time.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 05, 2019, 06:06:32 PM
I remember getting the first DQ/DW game in the eighties for free with a Nintendo Power sub. Talk about a slog...I never made much headway into it until the days of emulation allowed me to GameGenie a code that made every attack a critical hit and made grinding a lot easier.
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Post by: B E C K on Nov 16, 2019, 09:23:13 PM
I didn't know where to put this or to make a new thread but I guess it's vidya game-related enough.

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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 20, 2019, 02:42:18 AM
Been going heavy on Pokemon. Finished off my years old X and Moon runs, then went back to Black. I'm so tempted to buy a Switch for the new one, but I can't help feeling Nintendo must be working on new hardware. Like, the moment I buy a Switch they'll announce the Super Switch or some such shit.
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Post by: B E C K on Dec 29, 2019, 12:28:03 PM
I just never got the appeal of playing Pokemon. A lot of folks I watch are doing shitload of Pokemon playthroughs and I have a thirty second attention span for all of it collectively.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Dec 29, 2019, 05:21:13 PM
I totally understand. Despite casually enjoying the anime during the Pokemon craze of the late '90s/early '00s, I never had any interest in actually playing the game itself. Then when X & Y came out and finally everything was fully 3D, I decided to give it a shot. That was like 6 or 7 years ago. And I only just returned and finished it recently. Since then I've been Pokemon obsessed. I can't explain it.
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Post by: B E C K on Jan 10, 2020, 11:45:14 PM
Tempted to try Wildermyth and Baba is You but I think I'll stick to watching Let's Plays instead like I'm doing with everything else. It doesn't help that I had to reset to factory settings and never reinstalled the games I had. Then I ended up buying a new computer and still haven't done it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 11, 2020, 12:39:52 AM
Still Pokemon. Into the breeding now, and it is a dark, convoluted path. Pokemon is truly and utterly bizarre.

Went back and finished 100%-ing Lego DC Super-Villains. Kind of bummed the next one is Skywalker Saga, but it could be alright.

Also been watching some AGDQ:

https://gamesdonequick.com/
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Post by: Fiero on Feb 10, 2020, 10:11:06 AM
I was enjoying LM3 yet never got around to finishing it. I should pick that back up. I also started and haven't finished Thronebreaker (The Witcher's Gwent's Single-Player game) and only finished the first area. I should get back to that as well.

Most recently playing The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Tactics and honestly it's really quite bad. There's nothing about that's particularly interesting, except maybe some of the Jobs system, but I'm pretty sure everything they've done that's interesting has probably already been done in games I haven't already played. I was excited about this game because it's the first Dark Crystal video game ever, AFAIK. When I saw bad reviews, I was worried. When I saw it was $20 I was again worried. Glad that they didn't charge typical full price for this game because it's probably not even worth the $20. I bought it anyway because it's Dark Crystal but if any of you are interested in this game, see if it ever drops under $5 sometime, because it's definitely not worth $20.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 31, 2020, 09:42:59 PM
I'm trying to figure out the love people have for Animal Crossing. This game looks dull as fuck.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 01, 2020, 04:04:24 PM
I tried the 3DS Animal Crossing back when it came out. I didn't hate it or anything, but I fell off relatively quickly. Might have played it for a week or so, tops.

I dropped Pokemon cold turkey. Completed the Pokedex in Moon, then moved on to Omega Ruby. Once I reached the end of the story in that one I was done. It will be a long, long time before I ever touch another Pokemon game.

Finally got around to playing Life is Strange: Before the Storm, and God damn if it wasn't just as emotionally manipulative as the first one. It also served as a reminder that I will never be young again. For better and for worse.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 02, 2020, 02:03:13 PM
I mean, AC looks cute but it seems so tedious at the same time. Shake a tree, get some fruit. Craft something and pick some weeds. It reminds me Sims Social but I found that game fun. You certainly couldn't terraform on that game though. Not from what I recall.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 08, 2020, 12:00:14 PM
Animal Crossing is kind of tedious and I guess that's part of why people like it? This is the first one I've really played. I don't think I would have liked some of the previous ones, though. It's like a narrowly defined Minecraft now? Or something? I like it and I can't even really define why. I just go pick up my shells and catch bugs and fish like a good villager does.

I got an xbox one x, so doing stuff on GamePass since I got a month with it. Saw a deal to get 6 months for 3 months cost, so I'll have it for a while at least. I'm apparently not as good at Halo as I was once. That's fine, though. Playing through Prey now, which is pretty interesting. I completely missed picking up the gloo gun at the beginning of the game, went through the lobby and most of the hardware lab before I was like, "Isn't that gloo gun thing supposed to be a key component of this game? I'm surprised I don't have it yet." Looked it up, and sure enough, I literally just walked past it. Good game, though.

I downloaded like six demos on Switch and haven't played any of them, including the Trials of Mana remake which I was pretty excited about. But that excitement is just sort of gone now and I don't know why.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 08, 2020, 06:12:33 PM
I thought about getting the Final Fantasy 7 game that's coming out as I never played more than thirty minutes of the original (I have a visceral aversion to 32-bit 3D graphics), but then I found out it is a part one of X parts. So I said screw it. I don't have time for it, anyway.
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 08, 2020, 07:54:51 PM
Some Persona game came out that some of the gamers I follow started playing. Doesn't really interest me. Nor does the FF remake. FF7 always felt like the franchise going downhill imo. I know it's a revered game and all but fuck it.   :razz:
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Post by: Rumble on Apr 11, 2020, 04:26:36 AM
Trying to play RDR2 whenever I get the chance (which is not a lot)
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Post by: B E C K on Apr 18, 2020, 07:29:54 AM
I just remembered the other problem I had with FF7: Cloud is just not likeable. (Same problemo I had with Squall in FF8. God, that guy was an asshat. I got 3 discs in and had no motivation to finish.) I can see how he would've appealed to the edgy 90s kiddos, you know, "nothing personnel" and shit. But it's annoying. It doesn't help that there's other characters like Barrett who aren't much better. I mean, it appears the chicks are all nice. Too bad Tifa wasn't the lead character.

And Sephiroth or however you spell that is creepy. Not in a cool or sexy way. He sorta has a "angry child-face." What he's looked like in previous art translated better, me thinks. And for the record, never liked him any better than Cloud. But Cloud's the protag so Cloud doesn't get a pass. Does Cloud ever get better as a person?
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 21, 2020, 01:12:15 PM
Got an xbox for quarantine. Been playing whatever's on gamepass. Working through the new Wolfenstein games currently. For the most part they're good but I question whether I actually enjoy them when I'm not playing them. Also, I play everything on easy difficulty now because I'm an old man who's lost his touch.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Apr 21, 2020, 05:58:41 PM
More like an old man who values his time. I'm right there with you, bud.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 21, 2020, 09:30:52 PM
I'm in it for the experience not the challenge. As banging my head against the wall is no longer a necessary part of the experience, why bother?
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 22, 2020, 11:35:06 AM
Some games I don't mind the difficulty, but I think with the newer FPS games the big issue I can't tell what the fuck is going on because the details blur together too much in some places. And their always so fucking dark. I miss the colorful cheery FPSes of yesteryear. But then some games I just won't even touch (Souls-likes).
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 18, 2020, 08:02:25 AM
Got Animal Crossing before it all went to shit and I haven't been able to play it for weeks  :nono: :nono: :nono: :poo: :poo: :poo:
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Post by: B E C K on May 18, 2020, 11:16:53 AM
Having watched some more Animal Crossing vids and learning more about the game, I'm actually kinda interested in playing it now but of course no Switches to be found unless I wanna buy from a scalper. (And, no, I don't want a Switch Lite.) I don't know if it's a mixed blessing though since I should be more productive on other things instead of playing games. Depending on what availability evolves to this summer with the supposed jump in Switch production, I may buy one if they become readily available again. If they still remain too hard to procure at their normal price point tho', fuck it. :lol:
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 26, 2020, 08:41:32 AM
It is cute as hell and pretty chill but I get stressed out over paying house loans and building bridges  :nono: :laugh:
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Post by: Fiero on Jul 06, 2020, 01:34:03 PM
I keep thinking about going back to Animal Crossing, especially now with the added swimming stuff, the art, they keep adding stuff. But I paid off my loans and kind of lost interest at that point, and the fact that the wife and I had to share an island is so fucking obnoxious (only one island per console, regardless of the number of players using the console).

Got an Xbox One, played through some FPSes, had fun, but now I'm pretty much just playing Cities Skylines. I don't like any of the other city-builders currently available on the platform. It's making me want to work on a gaming PC to try some others but I'm not sure when I'll have the money for something decent in that domain. Oh well, I'll keep doing Cities Skylines until I bore of it, I guess.

Still anxiously waiting for Hollow Knight: Silksong. I saw Xbox One is putting up some demos for a week later this month and I'm hoping it will be in the lineup but I'm also not going to hold my breath. It has been at game shows in the past year already as a playable demo, but that's a very different environment to playing demos at home.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 24, 2020, 08:39:50 PM
I've been playing Mortal Shell. Kind of a budget Dark Souls. I like it.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 28, 2020, 10:35:11 AM
I just started Super Mario Brothers 3 on Switch this week. I'm up to world 6. I'm just easing my way through every level. It's still one of the greatest platformers of all time.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 02, 2020, 09:33:09 PM
Man, I've been playing that Genshin Impact. It's kind of a problem for me right now.

Wouldn't mind one of those new consoles, but I can't imagine I'll get my hands on one until sometime next year. I'm not jumping through fiery hoops to get one, either. Fuck that.

Suppose I'll need to start thinking about a 4K, too. Ugh.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 03, 2020, 08:09:44 PM
I dropped my Nintendo online subscription as I don't fool with it enough...I'd decided that the Switch is going to my niece for Christmas. I use my XBox One S for playing 4K DVDs exclusively. I've only turned on my PS4 for the past six months to use the Youtube and Plex apps since my TV started acting nutty. Now that I've resolved that it probably won't be turned on again for quite some time. I'd gotten halfway through FFVII Remake, but I put it down for a few weeks and don't want to be bothered learning how to play it again. You'd think I'd have been burning all of them up for the past two and a half weeks that I've been stuck at home, but that hasn't been the case. Any time I want to game I either play Fowlst on the phone or run RetroArch on the PC to play a few levels of SMB or 1943 on a NES emulator.

I can't rationally justify getting a PS5 aside from replacing the PS4 and XBox wholesale, as it's likely to run Plex direct play better than the PS4 and has the 4K DVD capability. I doubt I'd get that much for either, but it'd make the PS5 less of a blow to the pocketbook even if I just forked them over to GameStop. Or I could get another nVidia Shield for the living room and build a new PC (my current one is from 2013)...then I could stream games to the living room when I want something meaty, and just emulate everything up to PS3 on the computer. It'd cost (way) more, but a computer's far more useful to me than a game console...the only compelling reason for me to have a PS5 is for God of War Ragnarok. But everything may change once fiber internet finally gets here in 3-4 years.
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Post by: Fiero on Nov 23, 2020, 11:37:08 AM
Xbox Gamepass got all these EA games so I'm playing Mass Effect Andromeda. It's better than I was led to believe by critics when it came out. I didn't have a way to play it at that time or I would have already known that. Annoying bugs aside (I've fallen through a few floors, weird visual stuff, annoying repeated triggered dialogue). It does feel a bit too Ubisoft-open-world for my liking but I'm at least intrigued enough by the story so far to keep going.

Surviving Mars had most of my attention before jumping into ME:A. I'm sure I'll get back to it.

Playing a lot of Rocket League since it's FTP now. It's fun enough for a few matches a day before someone shows me how they're playing a spaceship simulator while I'm driving around on the ground like a doofus.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 03, 2020, 05:07:20 PM
Now that Xbox Series S/X have turned out to be emulation beasts, combined with its ingrown ability to play every worthwhile thing that's been published on a Microsoft console over the past 20 years, I'm starting to think that might not be such a ridiculous idea to get one. Too bad Sony doesn't publish cross-platform, or that'd be the end-all be-all gaming machine as far as I'm concerned.

I still find it absolutely ridiculous that we still have proprietary consoles as well as first- and third-party exclusives in this day and age. If it hadn't been for the consistent cash cow of online subscriptions we'd have probably wound up there along with with swappable upgrade modules every couple years. But no, we're still stuck in the razor blade business model and now forever will be. GD-nonphysical media-ITA.
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Post by: Fiero on Dec 15, 2020, 07:20:07 PM
Now that Xbox Series S/X have turned out to be emulation beasts, combined with its ingrown ability to play every worthwhile thing that's been published on a Microsoft console over the past 20 years, I'm starting to think that might not be such a ridiculous idea to get one. Too bad Sony doesn't publish cross-platform, or that'd be the end-all be-all gaming machine as far as I'm concerned.

I still find it absolutely ridiculous that we still have proprietary consoles as well as first- and third-party exclusives in this day and age. If it hadn't been for the consistent cash cow of online subscriptions we'd have probably wound up there along with with swappable upgrade modules every couple years. But no, we're still stuck in the razor blade business model and now forever will be. GD-nonphysical media-ITA.

XSX does seem worth it (and I say that just having bought my X1X in the Spring) but these scalpers are ridiculous. The fact that they don't have enough stock is ridiculous. It's all ridiculous.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 21, 2020, 08:33:38 AM
I don't buy consoles until the first revisions arrive at the earliest. By that time the good games are coming out, too, and you skip all that buying frenzy/price gouging hoopla.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 13, 2021, 11:02:41 AM
I can't see any good reason to buy the XSX or PS5 until at least next summer based on games I'm interested in, probably not until next winter even.

Currently playing Monster Train. Neat-o single-player rogue-like card game where you help the denizens of hell relight the fire at the heart of the realm while angels try to stop you. I've heard Slay the Spire is a similar sort of game but I haven't tried that one yet. I worry that there isn't enough content to keep me coming back after I've unlocked all the "champions" but there's some stuff you can do with difficulty scaling that could keep it interesting.

Watched a bunch of the speed runs from AGDQ and the Jedi Fallen Order run is so broken. They start out jumping in ways that should be impossible and end up with flutter-flying jedi at the end. Almost makes me want to play the game again to see if I can pull any of the tricks off but probably won't.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 15, 2021, 06:13:50 PM
Just bought Call of Duty Modern Warfare for PS4. Yeah, I know I'm late to the game, but I'd like to try a squad game in single player as internet woes preclude multiplayer. If it's something I can jump into and jump out of with relative read it'll be worth it.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 15, 2021, 07:59:24 PM
Whenever one of youse guys eventually comes in here and says you've jumped on board the new console train, then I'll probably be motivated by envy to get one myself.

No hurry though, eh?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 22, 2021, 06:33:18 PM
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fills me with righteous indignation...no, wait...no, it's irrationalfury, all right! I paid sixty bucks for a game, and all I got was a license to download a game. And what a download: 70 gigabytes? WTCHOP?! It took two days to pull down 2GB, and that meant no internet usage over the entirety of the weekend. So assuming the download doesn't break and have to start over (it always does), that puts me at next month with no bandwidth to do anything else in the meantime. FTS! I'm going to get some shrink wrap, seal it up, and take this bitch back to the Best Buy.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 22, 2021, 07:37:40 PM
Holy shit, dude. Your internet. I was starting to feel left behind with my DSL, but 2GB in 48 hours is like... GOD DAMN.

Are there no high speed options in your area at all? Like, not even satellite or something?
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 23, 2021, 08:08:58 AM
I just started Super Mario Brothers 3 on Switch this week. I'm up to world 6. I'm just easing my way through every level. It's still one of the greatest platformers of all time.
Oh shit I loved that game! How much is it? Do they have Super Mario world too?
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 23, 2021, 08:39:49 PM
Holy shit, dude. Your internet. I was starting to feel left behind with my DSL, but 2GB in 48 hours is like... GOD DAMN.

Are there no high speed options in your area at all? Like, not even satellite or something?
There's satellite, but it's really high and really unreliable and really laggy which means it's completely worthless for online gaming (minor gripe) and wifi cell calling (deal breaker). I live 25 miles from the nearest cable system. AT&T is supposed to be implementing fixed wireless which is basically a millimeter-wave radio on their cell towers that delivers a minimum of 10Mbps, but they're taking their sweet-ass time, and the nearest tower is 8 miles away, anyway.

Our rural electric cooperative is currently rolling out broadband internet in our service area (they're stringing fiber optics over their powet lines...gigabit internet, baby!), but my immediate area is scheduled under phase 5. They're half-way through phase 1, and the subsequent phases will take 8 months to a year each to implement. So the PS6 will be around the corner before it's available.

Oh shit I loved that game! How much is it? Do they have Super Mario world too?
It was free with an online subscription which is only 20 bucks a year. If I played my Switch more often it'd be totally worth it. And, yes, SMW is there, too...Here's a list of what's on there. (https://www.perfectly-nintendo.com/nintendo-switch-online-list-of-retro-games/)
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jan 24, 2021, 08:15:11 AM
Ahhhh they have Donkey Kong Country! Thanks for the info!!
Do you know if you can just download these? I don't really feel like keeping an online account with switch
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 25, 2021, 09:02:14 AM
No, it comes with the sub. It's all cloud-based. Ultimately the only thing I used the Switch for was playing old games, and I've been playing them on computers for over twenty years for nothing, so I cancelled my sub.
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Post by: Fiero on Jan 27, 2021, 11:15:39 AM
Playing and enjoying Monster Train for awhile I decided to try Slay the Spire. I'm enjoying it but I prefer Monster Train. Having the extra decision of where to put your monsters on the train is significant and MT has a lot less trap cards than StS. Oh well, I'm still at least going to get everything unlocked.

I keep wanting to try Titanfall 2 or Battlefront 2 again, I started both of them and gave up on them shortly after. I should like these games but just didn't get hooked for some reason.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 20, 2022, 11:41:54 PM
I'm playing Fire Emblem Sacred Stones after watching a draft race (four people speed running it but each person using specific characters).  Like, I'm not speedrunning it or anything but I am trying to pick specific people to use so that I don't spread out experience points too thin.  Don't know if I'll actually finish it but it's fun so far.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 21, 2022, 12:31:22 AM
I finished Elden Ring, now I'm playing Tunic.

Probably go back to ER at some point, but for now, taking a break.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Mar 25, 2022, 08:40:46 PM
I replayed Uncharted 4 after getting an upgraded version...I'll likely play through UC: Lost Legacy again for the same reason, but I'm Uncharted out for the nonce. I'm playing some Ratchet and Clank as a nice palette cleanser, at which point I'll probably go ahead and tackle Miles Morales, as the remastered version of Spider-man was the first game I played through on the PS5.
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Post by: Fiero on Apr 02, 2022, 07:19:34 PM
TUNIC had my undivided attention for about two weeks. My friends finally decided they didn't want to play Warframe every week so we're alternating between Sea of Thieves and playing old Halo campaigns once a week. May also do Streets of Rage 4 and the Turtles collection (whenever that releases). I've also been playing Kentucky Route Zero and I'm like teetering on a line between hating it and loving it.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 06, 2022, 01:47:35 PM
Just realized a) I had but never played the Batman Return to Arkham collection for PS4, b) I never really got too far in Arkham Asylum when I had it on PC, and c) PS5 is backwards compatible with PS4 (duh). So I'm playing through Arkham Asylum.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 13, 2022, 06:18:56 PM
Looking forward to this one:


And this:

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 10, 2022, 03:40:45 AM
I've been playing fortnite every single night until 1-2am. Now I have undereye....hmm how do you call it when your eyes look sunken due to lack of sleep? its the opposite of eye bags... Anyways yes. I didn't think I could get into a game this hard lol (haven't even played AC in at least a year). I'm waiting for the John Wick skin :3
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 10, 2022, 08:57:22 AM
I've been playing fortnite every single night until 1-2am. Now I have undereye....hmm how do you call it when your eyes look sunken due to lack of sleep? its the opposite of eye bags...

Eye hollows or sunken eyes.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 04, 2022, 11:20:41 AM
Not playing any games right now.

But posting this with no context because I want to:

Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 04, 2022, 03:34:59 PM
I've had the first Somnium Files for ages now, and I've barely touched it due to my utter loathing of imposed time limits in games.

Could have been a chill VN-like experience, but nope, gotta add stress to the mix.

Speaking of VN-like experiences, I've been playing Digimon Survive the last few nights, and I'm liking it so far.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 04, 2022, 03:56:08 PM
The sominums, you mean? Granted I've only watched others play it but it looks like you could keep failing the sominums until you find the right solutions. Unless you mean the QTEs. Because those sure as hell don't appeal to me.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Aug 04, 2022, 05:31:07 PM
I finally downloaded all the Call of Duty game I bought a year ago but couldn't play because it required something like 100gbs of downloaded files (yay for Starlink). But it was so much damn trouble--signing up for multiple ancillary accounts, downloading like a half dozen separate components and then updates to each--I decided that if the game is as involved as its installation then I'm better off not fooling with it. If I can't pop the disc in and play it, or download, install, and play, then it can fuck right off. I am not a game whore who has the patience to twiddle around with shit like this anymore, if I ever was.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 04, 2022, 06:15:42 PM
The sominums, you mean? Granted I've only watched others play it but it looks like you could keep failing the sominums until you find the right solutions. Unless you mean the QTEs. Because those sure as hell don't appeal to me.

This is precisely my problem, though. It essentially means all exploration and puzzle-solving is on a timer, requiring you to repeat sections of the game potentially multiple times until you eventually brute force your way through.

Depending on the activity in question, sometimes I don't even feel like doing that once, never mind over and over again.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 04, 2022, 09:03:31 PM
That's fair. At least you have the game. I just watch other people play it. It's not the somniums that dissuade me but the QTEs and some of the dialogue and interactions feel bloated.  At least if someone else plays, I can fast-forward through the cringe and pornomag gags and whatnot. And this isn't really that spoilery to say but I would've liked to see more growth from the characters into the sequel. Like Date and Mizuki having a proper father/daughter relationship. But previous game characters feel a bit stagnant then other stuff gets retconned. Bleh. I was surprised to find I actually liked Ryuki and Tama in the sequel. I didn't think I would.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 04, 2022, 11:05:25 PM
Spoil away. I doubt I'll ever get back around to it. I see a lot of people talk about having "backlogs" of games to play through, but for me, if I bought a game and never bothered to finish it, it's probably because it didn't hold my interest.

As you say, this is probably one that I'd have a much better time watching than actually playing myself.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 04, 2022, 11:40:51 PM
Evo starts tomorrow!

https://www.evo.gg/schedule

It's like Christmas in August.
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Post by: B E C K on Aug 05, 2022, 01:21:39 AM
Regarding the AI Somnium Files games, I think the beginnings of both games are the weakest parts. I actually gave up watching them both the first go-round because I was bored by the beginnings of them. But one of the streamers I like to watch was getting into them so I'd come back to a future stream to see how things were going and got hooked on the later story elements. This literally happened over a year apart. I had the exact same reaction to each game.

The first game's the stronger story but the weaker somniums. I enjoyed Poledoo (Oodelop), Materwelonz, and Millbeeful's playthroughs.


So I'm gonna rant a bit and spoil some stuff... just some of my issues with the story-telling in the game. In summary, I actually do enjoy the overall story and most of the characters within the game. If I didn't, I wouldn't be watching multiple playthroughs of both games. But there are issues here that hamper the enjoyment a bit.

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The pr0n-loving, semi-amnesiac protag of the first game, Date, has all of these interpersonal relationships that could've been further developed in the second game: with adoptive daughter Mizuki, who's upset at him and wants to kick his ass; with former girlfriend Hitomi, a lonely teacher; with Hitomi's airheaded idol daughter Iris; and with his investigation partner AI eyeball the sassy Aiba. Those are the significant relationships. In a twist worthy of Shyamalan, Date even finds out he's not even in his real body in the first game. He's in the villain's body, who is the psychopathic son of a powerful politician. The first game ends with the villain dead and Date in his real body celebrating with all of his friends.

Second game...
-After getting his original body back in the first game, Date... dresses up in the same clothes and wears a mask of the villains' face in the new game. In other words, his appearance and voice is 100% identical to how he was in the villain's body.
-Date gets amnesia again. For six years. He has literally spent more time having amnesia than he's actually spent with his adoptive daughter. How does she even consider him a father at this point?
-Mizuki is still upset at Date and still wants to kick Date's ass. The relationship never softens or becomes more familiar. This is extra disappointing because the first game has a non-canon route where they get very close and form a bond. So we got to see what could've been.
-Since Date has amnesia again, his poor girlfriend gets abandoned again.
-Date literally goes Super Saiyan off of pr0n, pervs on his girlfriend's daughter watermelon vids, and asks his AI eyeball to stream pr0n to his brain. I get that it's his schtick but it was already overdone in the first game.

I think Spike Chunsoft didn't want to spoil potential new players to the first game so didn't bother changing much. But this stagnates the world in exchange. Honestly, I like Date but he should've been written out of the game if they were gonna do this. Streamers I watched were all happy to see him re-appear so I accept I'm an outlier. But he didn't add much of anything to the game. If anything though, I would've loved to see him in his original body with his girlfriend and bonded with his adoptive daughter and potential step-daughter. But instead let's, uh, keep him a drunk creep!

And this doesn't get into the game itself. The second game has the stronger somniums. They're very creative and engaging in telling the story. However, the story itself is weaker. It's a weak story with strong characters. Except for the villain. I found him lame.

First game villain:

-literally sick in the head due to a chemical imbalance
-also crazy in general (killed animals, murdered people as a child)
-also came from a rich, connected family so used privilege to get away with his past crimes
-had additional motivation against the protag specifically because the protag cop has his body
-sicko wants his body back and killed people close to protag for this reason
-is intelligent and activity tricks others and makes shit happen

Second game villain:

-literal-who orphan harvested for organs; he's technically the first villain's half-brother but that fact has no meaning or consequence in the game
-believes the world is a simulation and wants to be free of it so decides to be evil or something; i don't get it tbh
-splits people in half so that others can figure out coordinates so he can show them a rocket launching at a stadium that he already told others was going to be launching at the stadium???
-has no personal vendetta against main characters and barely interacts with them
-has armies of paid goons at his disposal at all times to do whatever he wants them to do even when he's dead
-kills approximately one person we're actually capable of feeling sorry for
-rips off Zero from Zero Time Dilemma with a shitty mask and voice changer
-DEAD FOR OVER HALF THE FUCKING GAME

Maybe I shouldn't be writing this out. Maybe I should make one of those chad/virgin meme pictures. :lol:

The game also has a protag issue.  Instead of bonding with Date and Aiba like in the first game, we have three protags and two eyeballs to split time with and it makes the level of investment that much harder.  Ryuki's the strongest one out of the three just because of the shit he's going through. We get to see him going crazy but are given no resolution other than a glorified pep talk at the end of the game. It would've been nicer for the player to get to work through Ryuki's trauma.

AND THEN....

THEN...

The game does the worst thing they could've done: a tertiary character delivers the big twist of the game by directly spoonfeeding the player specifically. In retrospect, it was a really cool twist. The music, the mood, the delivery was also all A+. But the fact that it's delivered this way ruins the investment within the story itself. There is no journey with a main character learning this twist. The twist of the last game was discovered together with Date and Aiba. The main characters of the second game don't even need to learn of the twist here because the twist was only against the player of this game to ONLY fool the player of the game.

I mean, Ryuki is playable for almost half the game and he's losing his mind. It would've had more impact to have the character losing his mind regain his sanity and with it reveal the game's twist. Then it'd be the player AND Ryuki experiencing it together. Instead, Ryuki is effectively written out for the latter portion of the game despite being the only playable character for the first part of it. So the player gets blueballed when it comes to learning what's going on with Ryuki.

Take from all of this what you will.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 08, 2022, 07:34:15 PM
Tacking onto my novel above but clones of people wearing the exact same clothing ruined another good twist in the second AI game. The game could've easily just done two different outfits. Maybe even throw a coat on the older one so you'd think the scenes with the younger one were just the character having removed her coat.

I criticize this one so much because it could've easily been better. I'm this harsh and verbose on shit I hate and shit I like and this is the latter.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Faye Valentine on Aug 12, 2022, 11:30:54 AM

Eye hollows or sunken eyes.
Ah yes thanks! Eye hollows. Might also be because I lost a lot of weight... but I blame it on staying until 2am every night playing this darn addictive game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 13, 2022, 09:58:42 PM
Anyone playing Cult of the Lamb? I like resource management type stuff and all but this looks more fun for Twitch streamers to sacrifice their followers than it does to play solo with rando followers.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 14, 2022, 01:17:21 PM
Does it actually work like that? Twitch integration where it populates your game with people in the chat?

Resource management is another thing I loathe in video games, so CotL is likely something I'll never touch.

Unless it ends up on Game Pass at some point, then I'll probably download it and play it for an hour.

I know I'm a cynical asshole, but it kind of seems like just another Flavor of the Week game. Much like Stray.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 15, 2022, 10:06:36 AM
Does it actually work like that? Twitch integration where it populates your game with people in the chat?

You don't have to use it and can use randos, but, yeah. It's only for Twitch streamers and viewers on pc. The streamer can start a raffle and viewer can opt into it. If you win, you customize your little animal and you're a member of the cult that the streamer can use to their whim. Your Twitch name will hover over your character's head the entire time.

It doesn't appear that a Twitch viewer can join more than one cult though. I joined one cult on Friday (technically Saturday) and I'm watching a different guy right now. On this other's guy stream, I have no option to try and join his cult. But I don't know if there's options that can be changed around like only allowing subs to join. And I haven't tried a third stream to see if I have an option there.

Your character also doesn't live very long unless the streamer gifts you a special necklace. I'll be dying at the beginning of the first guy's stream tonight. He got me at the end of his Friday stream, I lived his entire Saturday stream but became old. My character's in their forties and hobbling around with a fucking cane. Feels too real.

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I know I'm a cynical asshole, but it kind of seems like just another Flavor of the Week game. Much like Stray.

Probably. I enjoyed watching a couple of folks play Stray but there's nothing left afterwards. The game's over and has no reason to stick around. Doesn't help that Stray's super short either.

Also, CotL is currently plagued with bugs. Several which softlock the game. There's supposed to be three functions of the Twitch extension: Twitch pc followers into cultists; Twitch totem pole giving streamer prizes; and Help/Hinder where you can aid or fuck-up the stream. On Friday, the totem pole wasn't working for the dude I was watching but we could Help/Hinder all night. Then on Saturday, the totem pole worked but there was no Help/Hinder. The different guy I'm watching now is getting neither. So that's a real mixed bag. Help/Hinder is super fun, too, so it's a bit boring when it's gone.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 01, 2022, 09:52:32 PM
Coming back into this thread, I was reminded of Cult of the Lamb. Almost feels like the excitement died pretty quickly. It was fun to watch a couple of people play this but it had low difficultly, samey combat, and almost no variation in the story. The entertainment value was mainly from the Twitch followers joining the cult and getting killed or made to fight one another. But that aspect was broken or/and glitched which put a damper on the fun.

I've been watching some playthroughs of the Forgotten City and I think I might pick this up and try it for myself. If only because I haven't seen a single YouTuber other than a speed-runner choose the option that gives you a gun. "I'll go Archaeologist for the lore." No, that's boring and you don't get enough extra lore that it ever means anything. YOU COULD'VE HAD A GUN.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 02, 2022, 08:52:03 PM
I'm not interested in anything that isn't God of War Ragnarok at this point.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 03, 2022, 10:27:43 PM
I'll say it, I preferred the God of War series when it was just Devil May Cry Lite. Now it's this over-the-shoulder, open-world, loot/crafting-based, "prestige" dad-sim abomination.

And I'm certain it's making Sony way more money now than it ever did back then.

That being said, the old formula had definitely grown stale. I don't think I ever finished Ascension.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 20, 2022, 02:39:21 PM
I've started my foray into Fire Emblem Binding Blade. I wanted to play The Forgotten City like in my earlier post but my computer's being a bit funny and I'd like the game to be on sale.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Oct 20, 2022, 06:34:12 PM
I'm all in for the new Dad of War game. The last one was likely my favorite of the previous gen games (though I admittedly played Spiderman more thanks to the trickled DLC).
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 21, 2022, 03:04:30 AM
I'm a fickle fuck, I'll end up playing it at some point, no doubt. I'll probably slide the difficulty all the way down so I can grease my way through it, though. I'm at the point in my life where I just can't tolerate having to replay sections of a game anymore. Fuck that noise.

Playing Luigi's Mansion 3 right now, and dying on bosses is like some shit outta the stone age. They send you to a "You Lose" cinematic (skippable), followed by a Game Over screen that lasts entirely too long, followed by dumping you into the room before the boss. Then you have to reenter the boss room and guess what? Rewatch the unskippable boss intro cinematic, fucker!

Doesn't help that most of the later bosses are puzzles with non-obvious solutions on a casual run, so trial and error becomes a fucking obnoxious nightmare.

I'm guessing if I hadn't turned hints off they'd probably be spelling out the win conditions to me every 15 seconds, but that's hardly what I'd call fun, either.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 21, 2022, 03:27:46 PM
Fuck me, the Forgotten City was on sale on Steam for 14.99. The sale ended yesterday. That's what I get for not regularly checking my email or whatever.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 23, 2022, 09:06:52 AM
Getting into Fire Emblem Binding Blade, I think I understand now why a lot of the Fire Emblem players I watch on YouTube are so dismissive of the story elements. I'm not the least bit engaged in the story. But the gameplay is really fun.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 23, 2022, 08:30:43 PM
I watched a Let's Play of Beacon Pines. I liked the aesthetic and the plot and presentation seemed interesting. Discovering new "charms" (I think that's what they're called) by exploring options is cool. What's weird though is even though there's a decidedly kiddie story-time feel to this, the characters say "shit" more than a handful of times. It feels like a strange choice. The cursing gave me a chuckle once because "shit" gets used in the gameplay mechanic. But it felt unnecessary. I think mainly because it begs the question: what audience is this game for?

It's not as if content for kids can't have cursing in it. But it's kinda closing off a portion of your audience if you want children to be the main audience. And the game also feels too safe and clean for adult and teen players. It's an adventure starring kid characters behaving and reacting in the way kids do. The art was pretty. I think it would've been a better game if these kids were dealing with ghosts or monsters or something like that.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Oct 27, 2022, 08:24:14 PM
Well I’m in the process of downloading overwatch too. I gave that a couple weeks for them to work out the bugs hopefully they did. I’m actually a little shocked I’m doing this because I only started playing overwatch because an ex girlfriend got me into that and the though our relationship only lasted eight months The one thing I took away from it was overwatch which we played together. So I played overwatch about three more years longer than we were together. But it’s some thing I probably should put behind me and just not play but we’re gonna give it another shot.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Oct 30, 2022, 10:36:08 AM
Overwatch 2  is not really and improvement. I wondered why it was  free, but it's not a microtransaction factory now.  You have to pay them to get any of the good stuff in the game now. Not an improvement. Would have rather just paid 60 bucks up front, but even then this is a just an extra large download and not a full new game. Like only 25% changes. 
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 01, 2022, 03:26:06 AM
Finished Signalis. Survival horror set in a dystopian sci-fi future. Visually, it evokes the PS1 era, with some anime AF character designs. Lots of creepy, upsetting themes and imagery. I liked it a lot, even though I found the traversal and combat to be somewhat clunky and frustrating at times. Probably intentional from a design standpoint, but it ticked me off just the same.

Also, it was seemingly developed by mostly just two people? Pretty impressive considering the scope of the game.

I'll definitely keep an eye out for anything else they might do going forward.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jan 23, 2023, 10:42:09 PM
Not playing it myself but am watching some Let's Plays of the newest Fire Emblem game. The gameplay looks cool. I'm really tempted to get a Switch. But ye Gods, the story is freakin' awful. It's a cringey mess. Like the worst Fire Emblem story in the franchise with copious avatar circle-jerking. I like a handful of character designs but most of them are no bueno. The music's great and the character movements are very fluid. The character voice-acting direction wavers between being good, passable, and terrible regardless of the actor speaking. There's tons of bullshit mini-games tossed into this game, too.

The game features past lords of other Fire Emblem games as magical "emblems" (like interactive force ghosts) and I find myself being unreasonably upset at how powerful they've made Roy from Binding Blade. Because he's an awful character gameplay-wise. In the game he comes from, he's a huge liability that you have to protect the entire time because he's force-deployed and weak as hell.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 24, 2023, 01:09:03 AM
I don't understand why they promoted the game exclusively with the male MC when the female is so much more appealing.

Or is character gender not a player choice and they actually co-exist within the story?
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jan 26, 2023, 12:51:31 AM
Nah, you get to choose the gender but it changes nothing for the plot. The girl is cuter, even if they did give her those awful sock-tits.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Jan 26, 2023, 02:02:53 AM
Right? Like the armorer was all out of breastplates that day. ::)
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 26, 2023, 07:42:56 AM
I'm still playing Ragnarok. Just killed/rekilled the undead berserker king after, like, 50 tries and 50 different Kratos load-outs. Working in Muspelheim now to armor up for the last Valkyrie so I can put the game down pending the release of New Game + in the spring.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 27, 2023, 02:06:43 PM
I played a VN called Paranormasight that was pretty fucking good. Kind of a non-standard VN, there's a lot of dynamic camera stuff and light puzzle-solving, maybe a little closer to a point-and-click adventure game than most.

Loved the character designs across the board. Just beautiful, and all the various facial animations were especially great.

No voice work to speak of, but I actually didn't mind.
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Post by: B E C K on Mar 29, 2023, 09:32:36 AM
No voice work to speak of, but I actually didn't mind.

Don't lie.  There's clearly a pair of talking legs.
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Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 29, 2023, 10:46:26 PM
Oh yeah, that part really got on my nerves, so I just turned the volume all the way down...
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 30, 2023, 09:39:59 PM
I was just watching playthroughs but, honestly, I don't think I would've figured it out myself. I found all of the meta-stuff neat as a viewer but I don't think I'd get it as a player.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 31, 2023, 01:11:18 AM
I think I replayed that section half a dozen times before I finally understood what they were trying to tell me. It wasn't an "Ah-ha!" moment for me, either. More of an "Oh, fuck off!" moment.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Apr 09, 2023, 09:17:49 PM
Still Overwatch 2 and it’s still bullshit especially competitive. But I’m a healer so I constantly get shit on and I play the most hated healer on top of that
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Apr 10, 2023, 07:57:52 PM
GoW Ragnarok just got New Game +. I'm hoping to start a new game this week sometime. I only have a few straggler items to find in the old game save.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on May 25, 2023, 08:54:03 PM
I've been watching a few streamers play the new Zelda game and honestly I'm a bit confused because I never played Zelda nor do I know anything about it other than "Excuuuuse me, Princess!"  So I'm very lore deficient.
The exploration stuff and the mechanics look fun to fuck around with but some of the boss fights and shrines don't look fun at all. 
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 15, 2023, 01:51:25 PM
I just crawled back up out of the Zelda hole myself. Can't remember the last time a game completely zombified me like that. Elden Ring, probably.

I don't think I want to do that again for a good long while.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 18, 2023, 11:17:05 PM
I just finished watching a playthrough of Majora's Mask. It... did not look fun. I was glad to watch someone else play this; not to mention it being a Let's Player who actually edits his videos into digestible chunks.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jun 19, 2023, 01:59:38 PM
The thing about Majora is that the people who like it... REALLY like it. I've never spent any significant amount of time with it. I remember learning about the countdown mechanic back when the game first came out, and that was more than enough to turn me off. Even though I now know it's not the impediment to progress it once seemed, I just have no desire to ever engage with it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jun 19, 2023, 07:46:17 PM
I've never cared much for the Zelda games, but with a few notable exceptions I've never been one for the adventure/rpg style of game.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jun 19, 2023, 10:42:40 PM
I've never been one for Zelda games either but I've been digesting a lot of Zelda stuff lately. Along with the Majora's Mask LP, I've watched a BotW one and I'm already 2/3 through a Windwaker LP. I think TotK is the only one I actually feel somewhat compelled to actually play though.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Jul 27, 2023, 03:28:20 PM
Hey, I know you're a big Fate head, have you played any of the games? I think that upcoming Fate/Samurai Remnant actually looks kind of neat.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Jul 29, 2023, 07:01:13 AM
I actually haven't. The only games I know of are the LN and the mobile gacha and those wouldn't be of interest to me. Looking it up, it reminded me of Fate Unlimited Codes. I also forgot Fate Extella was a thing.

The new game does look kinda interesting. I wonder what Jeanne is doing there. And I didn't even notice the Saber is yet another Saberface with an ahoge and everything. Must've been the black hair.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Aug 29, 2023, 12:38:21 PM

This game continues to look fucking sick. I just might have to get it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Aug 31, 2023, 09:15:27 PM
It was the pig-flipping, wasn't it?

Also, looks totally out of place for the aesthetic to have Cu-Lancer just standing there in his bright blue suit. At least put him in a period-style outfit like Gilgamesh. But at least he didn't get Tamamo's derp-face.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 01, 2023, 11:40:57 AM
It was the pig-flipping, wasn't it?

HAHA YES!!!
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Sep 06, 2023, 03:14:09 PM
So I have to rant about something I have no business ranting on. But it's bothering me. Re: Sea of Stars.

I've been seeing a lot of buzz about this game. It's got really high ratings and a couple of streamers I really enjoy are playing this. I looked at some screenshots and the pixel art for the world looks beautiful so I decided to give it a watch from two different playthroughs.

What the fuck tho'?

Firstly, this game is supposed to be an homage or whatever to 90's era JRPGs. But there's "homage" and then "there's taking too much." I don't think they took enough to be called a "rip-off" or anything that extreme but it's to a level that makes me uncomfortable. On Chrono Trigger alone:

Fight Gato? Here's Gato at Home.
Fight Lavos? Here's a Lavos worm-thing.
The Kingdom of Zeal? Here's Zeal at Home.
Fight Flea the Magician in a magical void? Fight our guy in a magical void.
Remember Slurp Kiss? It's an enemy tech, how cheeky.
Remember the Bubble Burst? Hee hee.
Remember the kiwala on the mountain who calls you nosy and gives you a stat booster? We have him at home.
Remember how Ayla had a tech where she'd throw whole-ass enemies and make the earth shake? At home.
Remember how the last chapter is named the Fated Hour. So's ours!  Tee hee.
Remember Yasunori Mitsuda? No? That's okay, we have him at home. Literally. We paid him to be here.
Remember when Chrono died and you had to go through a stopped moment in time for you to save him? Here's the less interesting version of that same concept!
Remember Lavos again? We have a world eater!  Ooooo.

It even apes on some of the memorable scenes like encountering Magus on a promontory and at least two other boss fights. It's, like, can you stop now? I know there's nothing new under the sun so I don't want to be that person but Jesus Christ. It just feels like they took too much. And apparently there's other references and nods to other games.

Secondly, the lead characters are super bland. It's like this game thinks just because you bore me with their training montage that I'll believe they earned the outcome they got in the end. No. No they didn't. Nothing felt earned. I wanted to like them in general but they give me nothing to work with. I like the concept of them but they themselves aren't interesting. Also, their friend the cook was fucking annoying. The guy in the turban felt like someone's favored OC. He was interesting but I'd argue just make the game about him instead. He seemed to be biting into a little too much screen time. The other two are whatever, I guess.

Thirdly, the beginning part of the game is too damn long and too dull. Your game is short. More shit should be happening. Why isn't more shit happening? At one point, there's this flashback for a couple of bad guys. I liked the flashback, if only because I find those two characters way more interesting, but, again, WHY? There were multiple scenes that felt like padding.

Fourth, a lot of folks liked the music. I like a couple of the tracks but I'm not sure what anyone's talking about in regards to the rest it. Most of the tracks are kinda forgettable.

Fifth, art. The pixel art remains gorgeous. The character designs, I wasn't sold on. Some of the official art is still beautiful even with those character designs. In watching a couple of people play this game and seeing character portraits constantly, they just aren't my bag and I don't think the sprites fit the aesthetic. I don't know if I'm biased against the art style or several of the cringe characters rendered in that art style. (Pirates, I'm looking at you.)

Also, that giant memorial (for the kickstarter backers) felt ridiculous. But I guess that's also whatever.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Sep 07, 2023, 02:50:03 PM
I been playin' that there Starfield video game. It's a good 'un, mm-hmm.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Sep 07, 2023, 08:06:47 PM
The name makes me picture an angry Jon Arbuckle in space, shaking his fist and going "Starfield!"  >:(
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Sep 10, 2023, 02:51:30 PM
I watched a playthrough of Chained Echoes. Mostly as a Sea of Stars palette-cleanser, to be honest. This is a homage to 90s-era jrpgs done right.

It doesn't have SoS's gorgeous bg art but the art here is nothing to sneeze at. The character art could be nicer. Sometimes a few of the characters could come off a tad bland in personality. (Looking at you, Glenn.) But I found the story gripping and combat system interesting. The music overall is better than SoS. It is overall less light-hearted than SoS but still manages many moments of levity. And, other than hiring a composer, like, basically ONE person made this game. Fucking amazing. I felt the love here.

I can't wait to see what the dev does next because there's supposedly another game or something set in this universe in the works. And unlike SoS, there's more story to tell that I'm actually interested in seeing. The game doesn't try to tie every thread but still concludes in a satisfying way. I read some reviews not liking two things: the crystal system, which can be mostly ignored; and the ending. I understand other people's mixed feelings but I thought it was perfect.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Oct 25, 2023, 09:11:03 PM
I played Slay the Princess. Kind of a choose your own adventure type thing. Seems like there's a load of different outcomes, but I feel like if I were to go back through it again, I'd just be trying to force alternate events by playing against character. Maybe I'll revisit it somewhere down the line.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Oct 31, 2023, 08:47:49 PM
I played Slay the Princess. Kind of a choose your own adventure type thing. Seems like there's a load of different outcomes, but I feel like if I were to go back through it again, I'd just be trying to force alternate events by playing against character. Maybe I'll revisit it somewhere down the line.

I thought that game had been out a while but it occurs to me that it was probably a demo.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 02, 2023, 04:31:56 AM
I finished Alan Wake II. Really excellent, although I'm not sure it dethrones their previous game Control. Either way, I'm looking forward to whatever it is Remedy decides to do next.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Nov 30, 2023, 09:03:16 AM
Fate Samurai/Remnant has a remarkable lack of pig-throwing.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Nov 30, 2023, 01:01:29 PM
Yeah, my interest in that one fell off a cliff when I realized Omega Force was the developer. No thank you.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Feb 03, 2024, 02:21:36 PM
I saw a random vid of someone I semi-watch playing Armello with his friends and got so annoyed by him playing poorly that I installed Steam so I could play my copy of the game. I haven't re-visited the multiplayer aspect, this game is several years old now, but I can't imagine this thing would have an active lobby anymore.

Kind of annoyed I have to re-unlock shit I already achieved in 2016 just because I'm using a different computer. But whatever.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Feb 03, 2024, 05:28:00 PM
Steam is supposed to store backups of your saves on their end, but not all games do for some reason, and some games that say they support it don't actually. I lost several years of progress on a certain game when I got a new PC, and that kind of killed my desire to stick with it.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Feb 04, 2024, 07:09:35 AM
Boo. That's dumb. Armello isn't even like a game with true progress. I'm just re-unlocking equipable accessories. Oh, well. Gives me something to do.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Feb 13, 2024, 03:48:43 PM
Not playing Persona 3 Reload but watching other folks play. That way I can fast-forward through the slog (stupid social links, grinding shit, and academics bs). Love the music in these games. The UI looks gorge. Don't see why they couldn't have included the cute girl protag in the remake tho'...
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: Rama on Mar 09, 2024, 03:45:45 PM
I just finished South Park: The Stick of Truth
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 10, 2024, 12:09:37 AM
Watching people play Unicorn Overlord. The gameplay looks super-interesting and I like the art overall (except for the inflato-titties) but I can see people getting turned off by the level of micro-managing. The story is meh and the title is puke. The supports all should've been voiced.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 10, 2024, 03:55:28 AM
I'm interested in Unicorn Overlord, but I've never been a strategy buff. I'd probably just set it to easy and steamroll everything, so I might as well wait for a sale.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: B E C K on Mar 11, 2024, 10:01:48 AM
From all of the streams I've been watching, Expert mode for difficulty is too easy. Don't know if you're a difficulty whore or not but the highest difficulty is locked behind beating the game once. I forget if that's on Expert specifically or if it'll unlock under other modes. One guy I'm semi-watching is trying to speed through all of Expert while another guy steamrolled the boss for a bad ending (I forget if he used cheats or not) and is doing his actual playthrough under the highest difficulty.

Otherwise, if you don't care, there's like three other modes under Expert to play under.
Title: Re: What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?
Post by: jonhammstein on Mar 21, 2024, 06:26:39 PM
I've been on the fence about grabbing the third season pass for Guilty Gear Strive, but now that they've revealed the next character, I have no choice: