Topic: Babble about a video game you are playing (Read 236769 times)

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #20 on:** January 28, 2008, 04:54:16 AM »

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin gets points for wifi play and even wifi map exchanging. However, it would have been nice if you could exchange a map LARGER THAN 10x10. I suppose this was done to keep games short, but still.

Bal · « **Reply #21 on:** January 28, 2008, 05:14:44 AM »

Quote from: Ted Belmont on January 27, 2008, 10:08:02 PM

I'm playing Overlord. This game really needs a fucking automap.

I picked up Overlord when it came out, and I really enjoyed most of the game, but I never finished it. It got to the point where every encounter boiled down to either you do it perfectly, or all your minions die.

Niku · « **Reply #22 on:** January 28, 2008, 08:16:13 AM »

Quote from: MadMAxJr on January 28, 2008, 04:54:16 AM

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin gets points for wifi play

And loses 20 for no four player play.

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #23 on:** January 29, 2008, 04:44:25 AM »

Playing No More Heroes. The stance system is just a big bowl of stupid. It's rock-paper-scissors without the scissors, and rock beats paper if you play it first. (Which you can do, since you're button-mashing.) Meanwhile, the search for Lovikov balls is making me pine for Crackdown's brilliant approach to agility orbs. Still not sure if I like the free-roaming aspects. It's really, really unsettling to see the rigid-faced robot-voiced NPCs a la Killer7 doing something as mundane as running a shop.

Roger · « **Reply #24 on:** January 30, 2008, 03:45:32 AM »

Picking Wind Waker again is fun. And I mean that, not like any time I attempt to pick up OoT on and off. Seriously. LttP, WW, and the original, and I am Zelda fiiiiine.

I also managed to get, at the time, Sonic Gems Collection. I overpaid. Sonic CD, while nice, does not live up to the hype.

Fredward · « **Reply #25 on:** January 30, 2008, 10:58:14 AM »

So, uh. Apparently I just can't play Soldier.

Bal · « **Reply #26 on:** January 30, 2008, 10:59:19 AM »

The secret is to shoot rockets where they're going to be, not where they are.

Fredward · « **Reply #27 on:** January 30, 2008, 11:01:57 AM »

Easier said than done, apparently.

No, thank you, I think I'll just stick with Pyro.

Catloaf · « **Reply #28 on:** January 30, 2008, 11:11:07 AM »

The only class I truly suck as is Sniper, I don't know why, but I just can't get head shots in games without EXTREME zoom on the sniper rifles. The demoman is likely my second worst, but I can still kill people with him, I'm just mediocre because I'd prefer to burn them alive.

Classic · « **Reply #29 on:** January 30, 2008, 08:21:39 PM »

Copied from elsewhere, because this rant is more appropriate here...

Quote from: Classic on January 30, 2008, 08:11:26 PM

Quote from: Bal on January 30, 2008, 03:25:27 PM
Quote from: Burrito Al Pastor on January 30, 2008, 02:39:43 PM
This is another one of those things where it's really best that they not do it at all unless they can do it really, really well. They did it in Oblivion, and there's many, many mods to disable it.

The main problem with Oblivion is that you never really are an unstoppable monster, no matter how cool you get. Why is the world in trouble when town guards can kick your ass any time they want, and you're an incredibly skilled fighter, of some kind, but it never matters or feels like it at all.

Actually, town guards and other late-game escort NPCs DO NOT FUCKING LEVEL UP. So, you really can mow down NPC guards without much trouble. In fact, most everything that you don't have to melee with is prettymuch a cakewalk except for a few rough spots where your level outstrips the gear you've been getting for drops. In Oblivion, like most WRPGs, it's the quality of your gear that makes you a killing machine. This is further emphasized by the gimped spell-creation system.

Eventually my ruggedly handsome Breton-mage became a ruggedly handsome Breton-assassin, finishing the destructive power of his demon-magicked Mace of Electric Owies with horrible eldritch poisons that hit not only for paralysis and stat drain, but for two of the three elements.

I guess I'm just annoyed because being a magic user wasn't really viable for me and my playing ability. :ULTIMATE FROWNY FACE:
And what annoyed me worse was between levels 12-17, said Breton-??? wasn't viable for anything at all, and it blew. It was awful. When I left him, he was an all-stats-sans-luck maxed Breton-badass with enough drugs to intoxicate all of faux-rome and a suite of strength enhancing armor to make him into a frightening whirlwind of magical destruction.

Also, he got Asura's star or whatever it is, that soulstone you can re-use.

A² · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2008, 09:13:07 PM »

I just finished the .hack//GU Trilogy completely. I will now ramble in a disjointed sense about it.

So it manages to tie it's anime in a bit more solidly. .hack//SIGN & .hack (The first four games) didn't tie in really well - it just seemed like an excuse to put random people in the game later. Also the battle system blew donkey chunks. //GU Corrects this by having the anime take place in a defined period but in reality we're left with nothing more than a vehicle to make injokes too, although the Phyllo bit was touching. The game also felt like more of a MMORPG. .hack felt like everyone was being too nice. //GU captured the feel by having a 12 year old cause shit just because he hated you. People called you a cheater based on the word of one person and it takes quite a bit of time before thye stop it, even when the equivalent of a sysadmin goes "no, that person is lying". Forest of Pain is a 100 level dungeon that in later levels requires long battles to get all the bonuses - in short, a raid. Unlike an actual raid, howeve,r the rewards are useful across the board - a trinket that's an infinite-use version of something you've been using since the first game. Hey, not too shabby.

Superface · « **Reply #31 on:** January 31, 2008, 12:21:50 PM »

This has probably been beaten to death months ago on Those Other Forums, but I've been playing Mario Galaxy and loving it.

I play games for about ten minutes at a time, because nothing holds my attention for longer than that. Therefore I'm shocked to find myself loading up MG again, playing it for three hours, and repeating the whole thing the next day.

It's amazing, I didn't enjoy Mario 64 nearly this much, and I hated Sunshine.

Also, Justice For All ftw.

Dogstar · « **Reply #32 on:** February 02, 2008, 05:58:20 AM »

I've got an ongoing game of Bunny Must Die that I dip into every so often until I get frustrated, and I keep the Audiosurf warm. Team Fortress 2 in between marathon sessions of City of Heroes/Villains (gotta get my stalker from 22 to 35 before the 8th...) with a little bit of Anarchy Online mixed in to see what it's like (namely,

mixed with :nerrrd: equals

) and the faint but distinct annoyance that comes from listening to a large group of people wax poetic about how Awesome Hellgate: London is and not being able to play it. A few mixed in sessions of Flash Element TD 2 every so often rounds things out.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #33 on:** February 02, 2008, 02:21:48 PM »

No More Heroes is a delight, but I'm not good at driving the motorcycle yet.

Lobst · « **Reply #34 on:** February 02, 2008, 02:28:20 PM »

Beating Call of Duty 4 in one sitting was like busting through a brick wall by repeatedly slamming my forehead into it for six hours.

My head hurts. :(

sei · « **Reply #35 on:** February 02, 2008, 04:39:30 PM »

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #36 on:** February 12, 2008, 11:26:33 AM »

I could have sworn I saw a link to Off-Road Velociraptor Safari on one of these forums, but now I can't find it. Anyway. It's out, and it's amazing. I just spent an hour and a half trying to throw raptors through a stack of crates using only an off-road jeep and a spiked ball & chain.

Unfortunately, I've discovered that by dragging behind me when I do a huge jump off the highest cliffs, I can crash my jeep so hard it closes my browser. :(

Still. Fun game.

Quote from: Bongo Bill on February 02, 2008, 02:21:48 PM

No More Heroes is a delight, but I'm not good at driving the motorcycle yet.

When you're driving fast, you can hit the brakes and press the stick in a direction while shaking the Wii Remote to do a quick, 90 degree turn. It takes some practice.

Doom · « **Reply #37 on:** February 12, 2008, 11:28:53 AM »

Final Fantasy 12. What a brilliant game to start with in my stack of games I havn't played yet.

And I want to follow it up with Final Fantasy 5 because I've had a serious Job Class boner going.

Arc · « **Reply #38 on:** February 12, 2008, 12:51:26 PM »

Slogging through Portrait of Ruin, and my initial impressions are that I miss the Cruz Crew. Jonny & Charletto are out of place, and thats saying something for a series that saw Skeletons on a Motorcycle (SOAM).

The gameplay is more classically Castlevania III, but this is due to the levels being designed as uninteresting straight shots. One long hallway after another. Providing separate levels was an intelligent enough reversion, but even these grow repetitive quite quickly.

Dumping in sidequests could've been an afterthought, but they're proving to be more provoking than the central adventure.

Quote from: Doom on February 12, 2008, 11:28:53 AM

Final Fantasy 12.

Lotta that going 'round recently. Like an EPICdemic.

Classic · « **Reply #39 on:** February 12, 2008, 01:11:48 PM »

Quote from: Arc on February 12, 2008, 12:51:26 PM

EPICdemic.

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