So, what're you playing?

[Lucas]

Pro Evolution Soccer 2014: presentation is disgraceful (lack of licenses, unfinished faces, stripped down Master League and more), still no PC demo, digital sale only on gamesplanet/metaboli so far, but as far as gameplay goes, IMO this is fantastic, the best Pro Evolution Soccer since PES 5 (2005), and head and shoulders above FIFA (which, on the other hand, is head and shoulders above in the polish/presentation factors). Of course your mileage may vary, FIFA and PES are quite polarizing (btw, at least in Europe, FIFA comes out today, both retail and Origin)

[Fabricated]

Now that I finished-up Splinter Cell, I'm back playing TL2 again. 

Thanks to whomever pointed out the mods in the Diablo3 thread, they're all great.  Though I think the increased Legendary drops one I have is a bit of cheating.  My level 12 engineer has 4 legendaries equipped already and put 2-3 more in the bank.  Meanwhile my unmodded 54 embermage never found a single one. 

That's weird. The game has a metric shit-ton of legendary items, and a class of item above that (artifacts). I have no dropmods and I tend to a legendary from every other area boss and almost always from act bosses.

Extra Chunky alone breathed a lot of new life into TL2 for me. TL2 has pretty nice random dungeons but some of the required "chunks" seemed to cause some areas to come out sort of samey- Extra Chunky makes everything less predictable and adds more mini-event stuff which is nice.

[Yegolev]

I played Demon's Souls last night.  I was doing great and then died to a trap when I wasn't paying attention.

[Merusk]

Now that I finished-up Splinter Cell, I'm back playing TL2 again. 

Thanks to whomever pointed out the mods in the Diablo3 thread, they're all great.  Though I think the increased Legendary drops one I have is a bit of cheating.  My level 12 engineer has 4 legendaries equipped already and put 2-3 more in the bank.  Meanwhile my unmodded 54 embermage never found a single one. 

That's weird. The game has a metric shit-ton of legendary items, and a class of item above that (artifacts). I have no dropmods and I tend to a legendary from every other area boss and almost always from act bosses.

I have terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE luck with all things random. To the point I've actually considered taking tally a few times because I'm convinced I'm below what statistical norms should be. No lie.

So yeah, I thought it was odd I never saw a legendary until I included the mod.  Lots of uniques.  Unless I'm misuing terms and the Reds aren't legendary and the oranges aren't uniques.

[Fabricated]

Oh, I thought Oranges were legendary, and Red were artifacts.

[Soulflame]

I've never seen a red item in TL2, and I have an engineer in the 50s.  I have seen plenty of orange items though.

[Sky]

I like when I don't know what acronyms are being used anymore.

I'm overly bored with SR4 and kind of regret the pre-order on it. I should push through the campaign and ignore the horrid side quests and minigames.

I've mostly been painting or playing guitar. One of those interludes.

[Segoris]

For the TL2 talk - I remember Synergies mod wasn't mentioned, and I think that added a lot of life to TL2 for me (also available on the Steam workshop iirc). Then, while looking up the link I see they're making Darkness Falls from DAoC for the Synergies mod. So yeah, rose glasses are on full tint right now



I played quite a bit of Rogue Legacy now that my controller is in, that is a whole new game for me now and is much easier while still ensuring that I always die. Then, I even went and tried SR4 with the new controller. The result is that FPS/TPS can continue to fuck off unless using a kb/m.

[Fabricated]

Syngeries felt like 10 pounds of shit in a 5-pound bag. Way too much random stuff, and the goofy additional dungeon they had was a mess since it's completely random tile sets with a gigantic random mishmash of all monsters in the game of varying sizes. I had one time I entered and I literally couldn't see what I was doing because it was a clusterfuck of giant mobs.

[Segoris]

And I enjoyed the drastic changes and alternate dungeons/leveling paths.

Though, I wouldn't mind if it was a bit less bloated

[Yegolev]

I have been playing Atelier Iris 3 in PCSX2.  I also managed to import several of my saves INCLUDING DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA into the PCSX2 memory card format.

Now to make up for it, I'm going to have to spend more time working.

[Samwise]

Finished Machine for Pigs.  It was pretty and I liked a lot of the imagery on its own, but the plot made no fucking sense.  Oh well.

[schild]

Oh you actually played through it? I don't like games that do nothing for 2 hours. Damn game had an opening with less action then the first 30 minutes of There Will Be Blood.

[Signe]

I don't know what to do.  I'm bored with everything lately.  AGAIN.  I still play a bit of FF14 but wander off a lot.  I'm finished with almost all my console games and have given away everything except SR4 and BL2.  I have one fighting game left for the 360 and some monthly freebies like Assassins Creed 2 and Dead Rising 2 or whatever but every time I start something up, I get bored really quick.   I don't really like much on TV atm. I thinking of reading a book made of paper.  Off to the book thread.

[Samwise]

Oh you actually played through it? I don't like games that do nothing for 2 hours. Damn game had an opening with less action then the first 30 minutes of There Will Be Blood.

I'm a sucker for atmosphereenvironment, and it did very well at that.  I looked at it less like playing a game and more like taking an audio tour of an interesting building.  On that level it's fantastic.

[Sky]

Aw, man. Now I want that game.

[Fabricated]

I kinda think there's a point where stripping out mechanics makes a game less interesting rather than more "streamlined" and A Machine For Pigs crossed it.

[Teleku]

Oh you actually played through it? I don't like games that do nothing for 2 hours. Damn game had an opening with less action then the first 30 minutes of There Will Be Blood.

To be fair, I thought the opening sequence of There Will Be Blood was one of the most awesome openings ever.

[schild]

That was not me speaking to the "quality" of something.

[Fordel]

I am getting my ass handed to me in SF4. Not by like other people, but by the medium difficulty campaign mode.  Seth is a cheating bastard. 

The Xbox controllers D-Pad came from the bowels of hell.

[rk47]

Abuse focus attack and throws when you knock him down  I like SF4, but not so much that I obsessively practice and play against real people in arcades.
One of those fighting games that has good, moderate pace that casual crowds can follow.

[Fordel]

How do I tell characters they are wankers? Sometimes the NPC's make fun of me and I want to taunt them back 

[Jeff Kelly]

Finished GTA 5. To say I didn't like it would be an understatement.

So now I'm looking for something else to spend my time on. I could start the last of us but don't really want to.

[bhodi]

Finished torchlight 2. Vanilla. I did cheat myself some respec potions, though. Engineer. It was.. okay.

The mechanics weren't involved and the plot was non-existent, but all I really wanted to do was stare at the screen and mash left-click for a few hours to relax. So it worked for that.

[MisterNoisy]

Still working through (and thoroughly enjoying) GTAV, and I've been dragged back into WoW (ugh) by a couple of friends of mine.

[Xanthippe]

FF14 dragged me away from my minecraft obsession. I can do everything on one character! Woohoo!

And fishing. I like fishing in games. (Thanks, Signe!)

[Samwise]

Just played Gone Home.  Fuck that incredible... game-like... thing.  Just... fuck.

[Kail]

Just played Gone Home.  Fuck that incredible... game-like... thing.  Just... fuck.

Is that a good "fuck" or a bad "fuck"?  I'm in "wait for sale" mode on it, since the first thing I read about it was a review which started with "warning, this has spoilers which will ruin the game if you read them, and so does pretty much everything else anyone can write about it" so I've intentionally been avoiding most of the information about it.

[Samwise]

To be clear: that was a "don't wait for a sale, buy it now and play it in a single sitting" "fuck".

Took me about an hour and a half.  By the end I was crying like a little bitch.  Not gonna lie.

I'm trying to write a review of it now -- it is indeed very difficult to convey what made it so fantastic without spoiling any of it.

[schild]

My argument for most games is that the cost is offset by amount of time I spend playing it. A game that clocks in at 90 minutes and costs double what a movie costs is... a hard sell (for me at least)

[Rendakor]

I picked up Rune Factory 4 for 3DS today and started playing it after work, when suddenly it was nearly 1 am. Wow, this game is great. Everything seems to unlock faster than in previous RF/HM games, so the first 12 hours aren't all tutorial. I've only played HM lately (last RF I played was...2?) so having the extra layer of combat and adventuring is very cool.

Max level in FFXIV is no fun solo/PUG so I've only been playing when guildies are logged in.

The 3DS Etrian Odyssey 1 remake also came out today, but I knew if I bought 2 3DS games one would go unplayed. Also Hex is next week, which will limit my 3DS gaming to at work only, where I don't always have internet

[apocrypha]

I got stuck in Metro: Last Light. Couple of levels set outside and I've failed to get through them 3 times now. I even went back and replayed the previous level to try and start them with as much ammo and stuff as I could. The last time I ran out of filters and choked slowly to death, which was actually incredibly disturbing.

Whilst taking the hiatus I needed to recover from how unnerving that game was I got dragged back into WoW by a couple of friends. Sigh. 

[Samwise]

My argument for most games is that the cost is offset by amount of time I spend playing it. A game that clocks in at 90 minutes and costs double what a movie costs is... a hard sell (for me at least)

I've been trying to think of a movie that delivered an emotional punch like this game did for me.  I don't want to oversell it, but I'd be fine with having paid AAA price for it.

[Rasix]

I'll pick it up when it's on a decent (at least 50%) off sale.  It sounds intriguing, but $20 seems high for the length and non-gaminess of it.   At least it's not badgers.

[Quinton]

To be clear: that was a "don't wait for a sale, buy it now and play it in a single sitting" "fuck".

Took me about an hour and a half.  By the end I was crying like a little bitch.  Not gonna lie.

I'm trying to write a review of it now -- it is indeed very difficult to convey what made it so fantastic without spoiling any of it.

It took me somewhere between 2-3 hours because I obsessively investigated everything and I still managed to miss 2 journal entries and a number of interesting tidbits.

I thought this was completely worth $20 -- yeah it's not a 40-80 hour rpg, but it was a fascinating experience and I don't feel like I was "cheated" by it not being padded out to something much longer.