Games that i am playing right now are: World of war craft and Mass Effect.
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Games that i am playing right now are: World of war craft and Mass Effect.
There are a few hours left in Steam's SEGA sale. A few classics for only a couple of bucks, like Crazy Taxi and Bass Fishing. Sonic games for less than a bottle of soda, and some DLC for la-cheap for more recent games like Aliens vs Predator.
Can't wait for the soon to be released RPG of the year!
Sorry Todd Howard, but that would be Dark Souls, not Skyrim, though if it's any consolation, Skyrim will sell better, and Dark Souls will be sadly overlooked.
Anyway, playing Demon's Souls right now in anticipation.
Shame people can't look past the brutal difficulty..they miss out the rewarding satisfaction that comes with overcoming it.
I'm not entirely sure I would call that one an RPG. Action Adventure would be more like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crowheart
I would call it an RPG with action-adventure style combat. ;)
It has the storyline, fantasy setting, loot, levels, health bars, mana bars, dungeons, stats to level up, grinding, NPC's, questing, etc of a typical RPG.
To be honest, I find it deeper than a lot of other RPG's out there.
I suppose it depends how one defines that genre...in my mind it ticks all the important boxes, and then some.
Have you played it Khen?
I don't play console. I don't like the kind of dumbing down a console game inspires.
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Originally Posted by Timbuk2
So played it for a good many hours now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
It is indeed solid.
Very lush and impressive in its setting. :up:
Adult themes, dark and involving plotline.
But combat, on normal difficulty, is oh so oh so oh so tough, particularly at the beginning. Some battles I've died and reloaded, died and reloaded, up to thirty times, trying different tactics and approaches to win.
Now that my stats are a bit higher it is a little more forgiving, but geez. :bulb:
I've heard that beginning is rough, not sure how much they changed that in the 2.0 version they just released.
Finally got around to Indigo Prophecy aka. Fahrenheit. Looks like just the sort of game I love, but goddamnit the controls are irritating :mad: damn consoles.
The Binding of Isaac is sort of fun.
Anyone pick up Rage today? Heard its not doing to good on the PC, that article from over the summer with Carmack admitting treating consoles with equal development time was a mistake is starting to make sense now.
Sony isn't exactly what you would consider consistent when it comes to solid advertising, but when they get it right, its amazing.
^^ Yeah, I picked up Rage.
Got it on console though..textures seem to pop in a bit too often, but it sure is a pretty game.
Gameplay seems decent, Borderland-ish quest style, fetch and kill..nothing special.
Haven't played enough to decide yet.
Joystiq, RockPaperShotgun and Ars Technica all pretty much give Rage a "meh" and call it a pretty tech demo.
Portal 2 - as good as the first, which is a pleasant surprise.
Steam has Duke Nukem Forever for $10 if anyone is still interested.
$10 is still to much. I managed to play a few levels a few weeks ago, bitterly disappointed - especially when you consider how much development time they had. :sour:
There released a patch that addresses some the shortcomings, like weapon limits and such. Doesn't do much to fix the bland gameplay, but the game is a bit better than it was at release.
I've never played a Duke game, and I'm not a big fan of FPSers, but I managed to play through it, amused by the toilet humor and swipes at other games, took me 15 hours on the easy setting. Not worth the ~$50 I paid for it at launch, but $10 don't seem to bad.
I liked the original Dukes when I was young, but to be perfectly honest DNF sounds shit.
Got a new game today: Dawn of Fantasy - an MMORTS
Never heard of an MMORTS as opposed to an MMORPG, so far seems fun. To be fair, never played an MMORPG either actually, I hate the idea of subscription costs and despite paying for Guild Wars its still sat in its original wrap never even installed.
Guild Wars still has an active base, and they are still adding content into the game, even more so now, bridging the gap between the originals and GuildWars 2.
Its got a hell of a learning curve, but its playable by Forever Alones as well.
Forever Alones?
(in this context) Someone without a group of friends that they play through MMOs with. Someone who doesn't have the time or understanding to operate within a guild.
Its one of the rageface memes
Ah, I'd be a Forever Alone then.
Time or Patience I'd say in my case, rather than understanding.
Dark Souls.... flippin amazing.
Sims 3 Pets is out today, it's much more fun than the last EP.
(I liked the last one, but this one is just F-U-N FUN.)
Will start playing Heroes of Might and Magic 6 this weekend. :)
Let me know how that is. I think I liked one of them, but it wasn't the last one I played.
It will inevitably be buggy to start with. Heroes 5 was really good. 4 was ok, 3 was crap, and 2 was what made the series. 6 should be fairly close to 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
Haven't played since 2 ... or 3 ... or 4. I don't know. I remember liking it, so probably not 3 going by your comment.
So, kind of curious too if I should check 6 out.
Yep curious about 6 too, but as a total virgin to the series.
Amirite in thinking it's primarily centred around turn-based combat on a kind of ... chessboard?
The oldie was. Guy on a horse walking around a map until it met some critters and transported you to a hexi-map (?) and the turns were based on initiative per creature rather than per side. I remember a wolf having the best initiative, so it always got to go first.
I liked 2, picked up 3 as a consequence and promptly lost interest in the series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
Arkham City is farking goooooood.
Sucks they pushed the PC date so far back. Competing with Skyrim? Who the fuck they trying to kid?
Looks like I won't be picking it up till it shows up on clearance next year.
Who knows, there could be a GOTY edition sometime down the line if you wait.
It's gonna be a contender, and a serious one.
There's a strategic and tactical component. In terms of strategy, you explore the map, conquer cities, gain control of mines, find artifacts, and decide what to build in the cities. The fights (against either neutral creatures or enemy players) are on a tactical grid. Both the strategy and tactical parts are turn-based. If you don't do well in either part of the game, you won't do well. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
You can find digital versions of 5 (including the two expansion packs) for peanuts now adays. The campaigns are really good.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
Don't know how widespread the offer is, but Origin just gave me 60% off my order. Picked up Hot Pursuit and Alice for $20 combined. Some of the NFS games are as low as $4. Crysis 2 for $16, Dead Space 2 or DA2 for $8.
I loaded up Origin and it gave me a popup about the offer, coupon code was ORIGIN60.
So I got HOM&M 6 yesterday because I was just too damn curious.
Campaign is wank. (I hate those dialogue screens, I hate the restrictions like: "No Ziggy, we will address the upgrading of your towns in another part of this campaigny tutorial". So I went straight to Custom game, and so far it's not too shabby. I'm still into the finding stuff out about the game phase which I always enjoy even when playing bad games, so not sure how much that counts for anything. So far it looks like the creature roster is rather varied and the spells aren't that bad either.
Hmmm. Not yet convinced enough to buy it, but will keep reading the reviews as more opinions form, both here and abroad.
Went "meh" and bought Rage yesterday though, so what do I know. So far not bad acksherly. Stuff you shoot at dies in a nice, satisfying way. The physics of the cars you drive are shite though.
Heard lots of bad things about it. Looks great, plays like stoolwater.
And Zero Punctuation had a thing about it as well.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...tion/4824-Rage