What Are You Playing? February 16th, 2013

Played PAYDAY with a developer today.

No, it was a stream someone was doing and some of the developers agreed to join. Very nice people.

I just played and beat that game like two weeks ago. It seemed pretty easy as far as I could tell, but it is also the only FF game I've beaten.

I never finished FFIX either, but not for lack of trying. Years ago I played on the PS1 disc based version and right at the start of disc 4 the screen would go black and never load. Kind of a rare glitch from what I gathered. So I started over again at some point, and it happened again. I have it on my PSP but i've always been afraid to give it another go!

I really enjoyed IX. It was easy up until just before the final set of bosses, where I got stuck because I went in too early and couldn't go back. I tried again a couple years later and had a blast. It was probably the last "traditional" JRPG I really enjoyed.

It took me a while to get into that game, but I ended up really liking it. it is hard in the end, so make sure you keep a save before the 'point of no return' in case you need to do some treasure hunting.

The recent sequel announcements have me finally starting The Witcher, and I'm also finishing all of the Riddler trophies in Batman: Arkham City to get to the final showdown with him. I really like The Witcher so far, but I'm disappointed there hasn't been boobies in the first 20 minutes of the game. I was promised boobies......

The only thing I'm hoping for in the 3rd game that they haven't really captured yet is Batman's vehicles. Even just some mini-games involving them would round out the complete experience.

As long as it's not a QTE, I'm on board. Maybe Batman will have to head to Metropolis for a meeting with Superman, to show him how to be in a good game, and we can use the Batmobile to get there. But really, he'd probably just use that Skyhook from The Dark Knight for convenience.

The Witcher not a lot of boobies in that one, but Witcher 2 has full frontal nudity (right in the first 20 min).

P4G and Sine Mora on the Vita, grinding on P4G to tackle the Strip joint. Tried to conquer it but got my butt kicked on the eight level

I'm playing on Normal difficulty, my party is between levels 22/23.

The boss battle for that dungeon is a little bit longer than the previous ones, remember to stock up on supplies!

Yeah I hope that on my backtracking grinding I get a lot of money to buy supplies.

I see a lot about p4g here. I have a vita but not p4g because I'm not really big into RPGs (and I'm not very good at them). Is p4g a good game for a novice casual player, or should I leave it for the hardcore RPG fans?

If you play on Easy, and glance ocasionally at a FAQ you can ejoy it without needing to be a hardcore expert on RPG's, I'm not a hardcore expert, and i've enjoyed the heck out of Persona 3 and now Persona 4.

Fire emblem, think im getting to the end.

Blood.

BLOPS 2

I actually don't use either if them. I run Chrom, me, Fredrich, lon'qu, panne, Anne, virion, vaike, Lissa, maribelle, prince Marth, chroms daughter, I think that's it

I think I would find permadeath frustrating, I didnt play with permadeath for Xcom either. I like games to be challenging but not frustrating.

I started Skyrim over now that the PS3 version is actually fixed. 14 hours and no freezes or bugs whatsoever (except a hargraven corpse falling out of the sky at one point). I should go to Solstheim soon, Is level 17 okay for Dragonborn?

Caught slippin'

For me i think it peaked at THPS4, since that one felt the longest with the best levels and most goals, but the TH games are some of my favorite games, even the later ones. THUG was my most anticipated game ever though. I was first year in high school and i remember i literally could not wait for it to come out. Never been that excited for a game after that.

40 or so hours later i finally beat Valkyira Chronicles, even new game plus. Also beat the Tell Tale Back to the Future game.

I guess i am in between games now and gotta find something to play. Been playing Tony Hawks Underground of all things today.

Playing some System Shock 2. I'm thinking of getting Dead Space 3, but 60 bucks is a lot of money, and while I think the first two games were well made, I really don't rate them as very good games. I suppose I'd like to see what happens in the story, although all I remember from Dead Space 2 was a bunch of people screaming profanities at each other.

Dead Space
Fire Emblem: Awakening
World Golf Tour (An online browser golf game)

Ni No Kuni, still working on Person 4G, and just downloaded Valkyria Chronicles 2 to my Vita.

I'm in November, on the Nanako boss fight.

Played Tetris Attack in college. Playing against a friend was a blast. A battle of wills. But I started seeing goddamn blocks in my head when I closed my eyes, which my friend suffered from too. Super annoying. And ways we got too good and would lag up the SNES.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Played the every loving sh!t out of SMW back in the day, but for whatever reason never played Yoshi's Island as more than an in-store demo. The art style is really neat, and the gameplay is what I'd expect.

Nope. Just watched a youtube gameplay vid. I may pick it up if I don't get an overdose of cute from Yoshi's Island.

Dead Space 3 new game+ in classic mode
Dota 2 (as usual)
and today started Impire.Very funny, feels kinda like a Dungeon Keeper

I'm still working my way through Dragonborn. There is a surprisingly large amount of content in that DLC. Far more than in either of the first two put together.

Well my 360 is dead and so is my PS3(a apparent power surge took them both out) I'm going back a generation with some PS2, GameCube, and XBOX playing.

That ****in blows dude. Not that you're playing the classics, that one fell swoop took that much money out of your pocket.

Ni No Kuni. I think I'm getting close to the end, probably 80% progress in the main story. I don't know if I'll platinum this one. If I see Derwin has another quest for me I'll go insane.

I'll be playing Metal Gear Rising when I get it, but the Aus release date has been pushed back to the 26th. It's not much but it's annoying. Until then I'll be continuing my replay of Mass Effect 3. Something happened with my origin account and now all of my accumulative achievement progress (for the ones I don't have) have been reset, which is incredibly annoying because I was halfway through the one that takes the longest (5000 kills)

Dead Space 3, ME3 mp, and working on the first Jak and Daxter game.

Ilike it. Not as good or creepy as 1 & 2, but it's still a solid game.

Torchlight 2
Dead Island
SW:ToR

Dead Space 3, and then AC3: Liberation, time permitting.

Fire Emblem: Awakening
Skyrim: Dragonborn
a little Civ Revolution DS
I am a very happy gamer :-)

Not to far chapter 3 is done. I only play it right before bed, so it will be a while before I'm done.

Skyrim: Dragonborn PS3
XCOM
Dark Souls (Moonlight Greatsword build)

Some Wow, and just restarted the God of War trilogy...so epic.

Tera until crysis 3

Dead space 3 and Dragon Age Origins. Also bought Darksiders 2 for $15 fat bestbuy, so ill be playing that soon as well.

Homework, man. Fucking week seven (of ten) slump. Two weeks I've gone without games and I'm getting the itch. I probably won't have time for another three weeks, because I'm the president of the film club, and we've got two major events back to back, followed by finals the week after. School sucks balls, man, and not in a good way sometimes. I'm going to have to resort to browser-based games while I'm at work.

Solitaire man, I've been playing that obsessively In my free time

I like to run Pandemic 2 in the background while I'm working.

ALAN WAKE: AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
finished the story the other day... its a really good game, MR. SCRATCH is a great villain...
now im working on the arcade mode, which is really fun... cant wait for alan wake 2!!!
LIMBO:
ive played about 1 hr so far... this game has great level design, its very unique...
TRIALS EVO:
just working on medals & achievements...
HALO 4:
mp & spartan ops...

(ive been addicted to arcade games lately... and looking back, IMO some of these arcade games are as good if not better than many full releases...)

Path of Exile

Picked up Dead Space 3 yesterday. Any and all doubts I originally had about the game veering too far from what made the first two games great have been swiftly eradicated. My only complaint so far is that the weapon crafting takes a lot of getting use to.

Now that I've made it as far into the game as I have, I see that the demo was a little bit of a mind****.