What Are You Playing? February 2nd, 2013

I'm playing through the Killzone series in parallel with my replay of Dragon Age. Good times.

Ive gone on into Dragon Age 2. I found a save game generator that lets you choose all the decisions that happened in the first game.

Super pumped about the Killzone: Mercenaries announcement for the Vita... For some reason, I've got high hopes for this one.

Hammering away at my indie games to do list: Bastion, LIMBO, Anomaly Warzone, Mark of the Ninja. I have also somehow found myself back in the clutches of Civ V.

-1000 California XP from Daniel for not rooting for the 49ers on Sunday. You've just been demoted 1 level from "Bro" to "Dude".

I have zero care for football.
I'll be playing Path of Exile and waiting for my copy of Fire Emblem to arrive Monday.
I have no games on my 3DS right now, so I downloaded Pushmo to fill in for the moment. So I guess I'll be playing that too.

Still playing Valkyria Chronicles. On missions 7 which is apparently known as one of the hardest missions, and its not like the ones before that were really easy. V_V

Also decided to pick up the Telltale Back to the Future game on PS3 since Monkey Island and The Walking Dead were really cool, and the demo of Back to the Future was fun.

What mission is that?

A strategy I use is to save before a mission, then the first time just use scouts to scout (ha ha!) the area and see what the mission is like, then load previous file, and the second time have a good strategy to rush and win. That has made me get A rank in most missions.

Its where you are fighting Maximillian in the desert and he has a giant tank with turrets. I have only played the battle once, just seeing what its all about. Didn't do well, but my second attempt should go a bit better. I usually do that scout thing too, then load up the save file.

I did it with 3 Lancers, two engineers for resupply and just using the Edelweiss to move out of the way of the Batomys and shoot at the walls that fall down. Just focus on one side at once and bring the thing down ASAP.

At the start of the battle move scouts and troopers uphill, kill the enemies there, and leave them near where reinforcements will arrive mid-battle, so they can shoot at them if they try to move.

I did beat the mission, though i was cutting it close on turns. Did pretty well at the start taking out enemies and turrets and taking out walls....Then Severia showed up and started messing things up, lost 1 ally, managed to save everyone else.

What saved me though is i had Severia on one side of the Batomys, and my tank, and squad on the other side of it.

Just finished the fifth episode of The Walking Dead last night on PC. A friend loaned me Fallout 3 for the PS3 that I'll probably pop in today. That'll be my first one to play in the series. Also, I've been thinking about picking up The Cave for my Wii U to keep it from getting too dusty =/

Shadow Warrior
C&C Red Alert
NwN 2
Ocarina of Time 3D... trying to finish so I can start Fire Emblem in good conscience

Replaying Mass Effect 3, Playstation Allstars, and DC Universe

I just finished Alan Wake, and regret not playing it sooner. The last hour or so was a bit unnecessary, but aside from that, quite good. I have American Nightmare as well, so I'll probably play that this weekend.

I LOVE ALAN WAKE... (great story, atmosphere, graphics, voice work, soundtrack)
i still need to try american nightmare...

Procrastinating w/ Sid Meyer's Pirates! and slowly making my way through Rayman Origins.

Damn, Pirates! I didn't know that game existed, now I must play it.

My first Sid Meyer game :-) good memories.

I'm determined to finish Valkyria Chronicles once and for all, but the last battles are filled with "No ****ing way!!!" moments.

SpaceChem. Civ IV & V & Revolution DS. Skyrim.

trying to find the will to go through Dishonored again

Well... I just started three games. Dishonored, From Dust, and Torchlight II. All are very different games that I have just been kind of jumping back and forth from one to the other. Really diggin' Torchlight though. Been so long since I played a dungeon crawler and I forgot how fun it is to go on a rampaging loot fest!

Get as much enjoyment from Dishonored as you can while you can, because the last couple levels are painfully mediocre. Also the most fun way to play is never to load a quicksave unless you actually die. Don't worry about how many people you kill (although it's fun to minimize casualties) because both endings are equally terrible. I OCD'd my way through the game and enjoyed it, but it's probably much more fun if you just deal with consequences of ****ing up.

I'm a little over halfway through the first Dead Space. I'm not particularly interested in the third game, but people seem to really like 1 and 2. The first time I played it I absolutely hated it but I guess that's more to do with how much work you have to put in to even get the PC version to ****ing work. This time I spent close to an hour tweaking everything so that it plays like, you know, an actual game and now I'm loving it.

DmC and Path of Exile at the moment. Loving both, swapping seamlessly between 8 weapons is insanely fun in DmC, and Path of Exile is great.

I did something I have very rarely done before and that is start two games almost simultaneously:
Fear Effect (PSX): it's a fun little game that you might like if you dig the Resident Evil-ish style of gameplay though it is not survival horror, it is more action oriented. Also it's one of those games were you watch cutscenes as much as you play and although its spread across 4 discs it 's very short (I'm up to the third disc but the first two took me about an hour each).
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga (GBA) : I've been wanting to play this game for the longest time and since there was nothing in particular keeping me from doing it I finally took the plunge

Also I wanna give a short review of a not so well known little game called "Changing My Avatar", published and developed by GameRevolution. I'm hoping it will get promoted to the front page.
It's not fun, it's a frustrating and infuriating game, and it makes you wanna hurl your keyboard across the room. It's pretty long and that is not a good thing since it's so sh*tty and the worst thing is that it messes with your other "saves". For instance I was forced to delete all my cookies in order to get it to work, so now I have to input the login information in all my bookmarks.
In short it's a sh*tty game, it's inherently broken and should have never been released in this state. The only saving grace is that future "DLC" my fix this broken turd. 0.5/5 or D.

Just got DmC and Playstation allstars from my fiancé for my birthday so ill be playing them until Tuesday when Dead Space 3 arrives. DmC has been awesome so far, trying to master the combos in actual combat and not the practice mode is challenging but satisfying.

Hopped back into New Vegas, since I got the Ultimate Edition but never installed it because of a mad rush of new games and old games going on sale. But tomorrow I'll be cleaning and mounting my new sound system and putting up cable keepers to finally finish my entertainment wall.

And reading The Yellow Birds. It's nuts.

Finished Bastion on the iPad and The Walking Dead on XBOX 360, my so-called "manliness" took quite a beating this week, with all the crying...

To compensate, I'm gonna play a lot of Madden 13 and of course plop down on my couch tomorrow and see the Super Bowl in glorious HD on FOX, with as many unhealthy snacks as I can find.

playing spyro 1 because it's finally on the playstation store! it hasn't aged a day, i've got every collectable in the first 8 levels or so and the game is as fun as it ever was

Also going to try finishing Resident Evil Zero, I still have to muster up the courage to play through the earlier games in the series. It's such a shame that Capcom aren't making any more of these traditional RE's, or at least making something more like RE4 with actual scares and no co-op, the only reason I can't really consider myself a real RE fan is because the only old-school one i've finished is the remake of the first game, which was absolutely brilliant. I have no doubt that I would love all of them but it's so hard to get started because of the fear of screwing up before saving.

finally let myself finish the story mode in Far Cry 3. now to do all the side missions and find all the things so i can get 100%.

no spoilers, but i will say that the general feeling of the game has changed, after continuing after completing the story.

but i will get that 100%.

i've mentioned this before here but it'll say it again. i haven't had this much fun in a game since Red Dead. it reminds me of RDR quite a bit.

they've been the only 2 games so far where i've wanted to get 100%.

i've tried with the GTA games, but after the main story i always just end up wreaking havoc and evading the police/military for as long as possible. or flying helicopters into cars. i'm sure i'm not alone here.

did everything in Arkham City but honestly couldn't be bothered getting all the riddler trophies. it was more fun just continuing being the Batman.

It can't be overstated just how good Red Dead Redemption is. Just look at how much it influenced Assassin's Creed, AC3 reminded me so much of RDR with it's hunting and traversing the wilderness (except the tree climbing), that game is basically a hybrid of the two series. Red Dead has seemingly been a bigger inspiration for other developers than GTA is

I found Far Cry 3 was the love child of Skyrim, Red Dead, and Assassins creed.

Assassins Creed was a game i never got round to playing. i used to watch my friend play the first one and had a go myself but yeah...kinda let it slip past me.

these comments make me think that i should, one day, give em a proper go.

Torchlight 2
Dead Island
And that lovely demo for Surgeon Simulator 2012

After being offline for 3 weeks I've been getting in as much time as I can with Dust 514 today. Probably going to play some more Miasmata in a little while when I find my balls.

NBA JAM:OFE - im really enjoying this classic remake... its fun, it looks good, and it has lots of unlocks...
HALO 4 - spartan ops
BATMAN ARKHAM CITY
WWE13

I finished up my third playthrough of Dead Space 2 in preparation for Dead Space 3. I am mostly finished with Severed on Zealot, then I will truly be prepared for 3. After that it is Spec Ops The Line until, you guessed it! Dead Space 3!!!

Xcom: Enemy Unknown , Uncharted 3, and Dead Island.

I just finished DmC and now I don't know what to do with myself. I have such a huge, untouched backlog that I don't know what to play next. It actually really, really sucks. Can't wait until March, though...I definitely know what I'll be playing then >:0