What Are You Playing? 10/08/2011

Slowly getting revenge on Dan.

I would have been satisfied if I would've gotten that knife kill when you were on the ground. Didn't work though.

BF3, hoooooo!

I almost rage quit. I tried to knife you like 5 times right then.

Your team had some of the best defenders I've ever seen though.

Are you guys gonna make a GR Platoon at launch?

Like a clan sort of thing? also, i'm assuming PC only eh? :(

If it's on PSN feel free to add me GuerillaMatzilla
I've been distracted from Operation Metro with Rage atm, but I have BF3 pre-ordered. Eager to play some real Battlefield maps too ;-)

Final Fantasy X

Stiiiiill TF2. on the single player side, I recently started Dead Space 2, which has been fantastic so far.

Dark Souls. Just beat a boss that had been giving me trouble for like two days. At least 10-15 attempts or so. Felt so good but now i'm terrified to move on because I know whats ahead can only be worse.

Laid up from leg surgery, painfully waiting for some good new games to arrive. Next week I will be playing Might & Magic Heroes 6, have played the beta 100 times by now. Then Arkham City. And 11/11/11 cant come soon enough...

but for now? Dusted off the old PS3 to play inFamous, one of my 2 free games from Sony. Thanks Sony. Turns it, its a pretty kick ass game. just about to throw Red Faction Armageddon in, won from good ol' haiku friday. I dont expect it to be as much fun as inFamous.

Fable III, since it was on special on steam :)

Portal 2 and Rift. I started playing Rift when they did the free week for their six month anniversary and decided to stick around to at least level 50. So far what I've seen of end game doesn't impress me, so I don't think I'll keep playing after my three month sub runs out. Portal 2 is just awesome though.

Portal 2? Yeah, 14.99 on Steam. Way too good of a deal to pass up.

Old Republic Beta. For the SECOND time! Booya!

I recently picked up the Borderlands GOTY edition. Just finished the Robolution and Dr. Ned expansions and thoroughly enjoyed them. I'm almost done with Knoxx's Armory and from what I've heard of The Underdome, I'm not yet worthy of trying it.

Pokemon Black. Bought it new but was burned out on Pokemon back then, because of Soul silver, and lost interest about quarter of the way trough. So I restarted it today.

League of Legends, just for the daily IP win extra. KOTOR 1 & 2 so that I'm really feeling it when SWTOR comes out. Curses to those in the beta. I was one of those who got the bogus tester e-mails from BW too! Ahhh!

There's definitely a learning curve with League of Legends, but it's way easier to pick up imo than something like Starcraft 2 or other like real time strategy. As a MOBA It's a lot easier for me to manage my one Champion unit and work with 4 other main units than deal with army Building, structures and resource gathering. I'm terrible at RTS though. Leagues sucked a bit of cash away from me as a f2p game without regret.

My advice: Try different champions. You'll eventually find some that you're really good at. Me & my friends have been playing LoL a ton, but there's still some champions that we plain just suck at playing. Also, I'm proud of the fact that I've managaed to spend $0 on this game. My friends, however, cannot say the same.

I'd also recommend at least skimming through a champion guide for the character you're wanting to use as they go into a bit of detail about strengths and weaknesses. There's a rating system making it easier to sort through, but you don't have to take anyone's build as concrete. I prefer leaguecraft . com but mobafire is good too. Also the new Dominion Mode is quite a bit more fast paced with little focus on farming so you may enjoy it more.

I've been playing LoL lately too! Mostly games against bots, but I have played a few PvP games and I'm getting better. So far my favorite champion is Tristana. I find her play style to be really fun and accessible.

Nothing currently. Waiting for Skyrim to come out.

Aren’t we all?

I'm waiting for Skyrim to be bug-free actually.

Good luck with that.

The Binding of Isaac, it's far far too addictive for it's own good

Just getting my gaming comp back online, working out the bugs, and playing some Dead Island in the meantime with some buddies of mine through Steam.

Anyone wanna join up, tagname is Gonzox84.

Just finished building my roommates computer, now new part by part, only to find that the monitor is sh*t but process of elimination. Been playing Rage on PS3, I have a lot of good things to say about it but I have a lot of issues with it too. The character art is so much better than Fallout, but the dialog isn't. The shotgun combat is some of the best I've played in a single-player fps, but switching between weapons and ammo takes some getting used too. Enemy AI is awesome and incredibly mobile with it's jumping and dodging, but I can't jump or climb over anything above maybe knee-length. I think I'm going to trade for Dark Souls once I beat it on Nightmare difficulty honestly.

Gears of War 3 and Dead Island

Deus Ex, shadow of the coloussus, and shortly banjo kazooie

Starcraft and candy corn

Brilliant way to get the community involved with the site, makes it feel more homey.

I'm currently giving Rage a try. It kind of reminds me of Borderlands and I'd like a lot more shooting and so far it's been a lot more driving. Waiting on Skyrim and Mass Effect 3 as my only 2 games I'm buying till next summer barring any insanely good deals at Best Buy during Boxing Week.

Canada, Australia, or UK? Best Buy. Yeah, Canada.

I played the first few hours of Assassin's Creed years ago, but just beat #2 recently. It was good enough that I'm going back to the first to fill in story gaps before moving on to Brotherhood. Yeah, that's right... all you fancy pants people and your new releases.

What a bad father!

Deus Ex sneakyiety sneak!

Resident Evil 4 and Smackdown vs Raw 2011

Just rang the 2nd bell in Dark Souls, currently desperately trying to find a better weapon than the Drake Sword, and mastering my parry+riposte skills on those invisible guys you can't lock onto.

Also, Sunbros unite!

NBA jam. So much fun drunk and coop

I'm replaying Mass Effect 2, waiting for Rage's graphical bugs to be fixed...

I finished Beyond Good & Evil HD this weekend. I loved every minute of it.

After that, I went back to Dead Island. Unlocking all the skulls and hitting level 32. Currently at chapter 8.

In between I did a little co-op Halo ODST with my next door neighbour. So far we worked our way through Halo: CE, Halo 2 and ODST together. I was surprised to learn that he never played Halo before we started doing co-op play, and he is keen on doing Halo 3 and Reach next.

As for the future: I'm looking forward to Batman: Arkham City later this month.

Portal 2 this weekend, but Ace Combat tomorrow and Arkham City next week. This is going to be a busy month.

I'm just twiddling my thumbs (and by that I mean replaying AC: Brotherhood to prep for Revelations) until Arkham City... unfortunately I am going to be ridiculously busy with work for the next month so I think AC and UC3 are gonna be put on a back burner for now...