So, what're you playing?

[Signe]

I'm only playing WoW now and then and not really enjoying anything.  I think I'm having an off time.  I should learn to knit.

[Rasix]

WoW
skate 2
Persona 4
Valkyria Chronicles

I'm playing too much stuff.  I'm near the end of P4, which should only take me longer to finish than most games do front to back.   

[Nebu]

Puzzle Quest.

No, I'm not kidding.

[Rasix]

It's not a MMO. I'm proud of you.

[Nebu]

It's not a MMO. I'm proud of you.

Baby steps. 

[Yegolev]

It's not a MMO. I'm proud of you.

Baby steps. 

I thought you were supposed to get that $20 LotRO box.  Remember, Brandywine server.

[Rasix]

You're a bad person.

[Yegolev]

No way, $20 for the full game, Moria xpac, free month and a couple ingame tokens?  I'm an awesome person.

[Sky]

I'm still playing some Madden 08, working through some Superstar stuff. It's odd the way they fuck with controls and the camera vs the normal game, forget playing CB (though the camera is the least of the problems with coverage). My main gripe is that they set your initial stats by how you perform their FUCKING AWFUL minigames. So after a shitty running back who can't actually run, a Freeney-style end who can't spin, a WR we just won't talk about, I've got a HB with somewhat decent stats (though still no specials). So he's ok...and I get drafted by the Colts! Woohoo!

Oh, wait. Peyton calls audibles like a meth-addicted kid with ADHD and Tourettes. So I'm trying to figure out how to break a run through the line and he flips the play, changes it to a screen, then changes it to a quick cut pass. After a couple beers, he's confusing me more than the defense. Sigh.

I do like the influence system. My first HB played for GB and as I said, sucked balls with the run. Great receiving HB, though, and the game gave him the option to spend his influence points (gained on good plays, lost on bad plays) on a second profile about mid-season. So rather than the basic rookie choices (toughness and stamina), I could spend them as a receiving HB on agility, catching, and something else. Once I gained a bit more, I could use them to affect other players, like giving Favre 99 passing and toughening up blockers. Apparently at some point you can also affect the opponents, I assume as a debuff.


Also, Amurites in FfH2. Having Govannon is mean, all my units have level one spells (he teaches any lvl 1 spell he knows to almost anyone)? So my swordsmen are casting wall of stone in new villages. And units that get channeling 2? Fireballs! Fireballing druids! Then there's the adventurer hero I found in a dungeon and upgraded as a mage/wizard/archmage. He's got forked casting, combat 5, spell ext 2 for TWO fireballs with empower 5 and 3 move each cast! Not to mention creating new mages with something like 8 experience and all the first level schools learned, so they start on second level spells across the board. It's getting hectic in this game right now as I'm starting to really scrape up against the two other leading civs.

[MisterNoisy]

Skate 2.  It's great, and I love the new move additions and the ability to move some elements of the environment, but I can see some of the shit that fucked up Tony Hawk creeping in (I have to pay 'Big Black' money to clear out the - and I'm not making this up - MongoCorp security guards?  Really?)

[Margalis]

I play Tatsunoko vs. Capcom every day at work after lunch. I don't think the Wii in the break room has been turned off any time in the last 3 months.

The 70s Japanese super hero look is growing on me.

[Nebu]

You're a bad person.

He's my crack dealer. 

I promise I'll quit MMO's after LotRO.  Really!

[schild]

The 70s Japanese super hero look is growing on me.

Don't let it. It only looks good because Capcom Artists and the like did it this time. The J 70s superhero look is still shit. They just happen to be awesome at their job.

[Velorath]

Played though Gravity Bone.  It's an interesting little free downloadable game that only takes a short amount of time to play through.  Definitely worth taking a look at.

Also finally got around to starting Fallout 3.

[schild]

Played though Gravity Bone.  It's an interesting little free downloadable game that only takes a short amount of time to play through.  Definitely worth taking a look at.

Anyone using fileplanet deserves the downloads they lose.

Edit: Much better link.

[Jain Zar]

The 70s Japanese super hero look is growing on me.

Don't let it. It only looks good because Capcom Artists and the like did it this time. The J 70s superhero look is still shit. They just happen to be awesome at their job.

Gatchaman doesn't look good?

Shit, you be fucked up there yo!

[schild]

The 70s Japanese super hero look is growing on me.

Don't let it. It only looks good because Capcom Artists and the like did it this time. The J 70s superhero look is still shit. They just happen to be awesome at their job.

Gatchaman doesn't look good?

Shit, you be fucked up there yo!

Now? Correct, they look like crap.

I was just giving credit where credit is due. Capcom can draw and animate almost anything and make it look awesome. But please, by all means, keep talking up old shit that hasn't aged well.

[Jain Zar]

The 70s Japanese super hero look is growing on me.

Don't let it. It only looks good because Capcom Artists and the like did it this time. The J 70s superhero look is still shit. They just happen to be awesome at their job.

Gatchaman doesn't look good?

Shit, you be fucked up there yo!

Now? Correct, they look like crap.

I was just giving credit where credit is due. Capcom can draw and animate almost anything and make it look awesome. But please, by all means, keep talking up old shit that hasn't aged well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkvhNs943xk&feature=related

This isn't good?  That looks better than a lot of modern anime!

I know you hate anything OOOLD, but sometimes old shit looks cool and has a charm of its own.

Ok, the 90s Tekkaman is way cooler than the 70s one and I would have been frothing to play this game if it had been (I have that Tekkaman as a model kit sitting by some of my speakers.) but to diss the classics?

Next you are gonna tell me something like Gundam Seed is better than original Gundam or whatnot.

And you would be?

WRONG.

[schild]

I don't like _any_ of the gundam.

Any.

Of.

It.

Except Gundam Musou, but I don't like it for the Gundam bits.

I don't hate anything old, I just hate rose-colored glasses pointed at whatever falls in anyone's path.

This isn't good?  That looks better than a lot of modern anime!

Yea, there's a lot of crap anime these days, but that's not a particularly great argument. On that note: Gatchaman always looked like washed out 70s crap. Until Capcom took the reins on this particular iteration of the characters. Also, charm != nostalgia. The latter is what you have a severe case of.

[Amarr HM]

I had a look at it earlier pre this argument just for sake of nostalgia really I must say I agree it hasn't aged well at all.

[MrHat]

So I got sick yesterday morning out of the blue.

Went and picked up Uncharted, Persona 4, and Mount&Blade.

Uncharted is damn fun but I die a lot.

Persona 4 would be more fun if I had sound (got my S-video cable for the PS2, need to pick up a second hand AV cable).

Mount&Blade is mount & blade.  Very easy to spend lots of time playing it.

[Xilren's Twin]

Recently playing:

DDO
Kings Bounty: the Legend - which is a not nearly as good as its pedigree
Puzzle Quest Galatrix (2) demo - can't wait for this one
Crayon Physics - also lots of simple fun
Battle Forge beta - like the concept but i am not a good RTS player, want turn based please

My kids are still playing the crap outta Call of Duty World at War and have been ever since Christmas
Just got a Wii so using that basically for casual games the whole family can play

[Signe]

YOU LIVE!   

[Xilren's Twin]

YOU LIVE!   

That's just a technicality....

[MrHat]

I think I played 6 hours of Mount&Blade last night.  The Native Enhanced mod.

I have so much money and the Khan just gave me a town.  I feel like such a bad ass riding with my cavalry into archer lines then ordering my infantry to charge.

[Yegolev]

Went back to Persona 4.  This game is hard because it doesn't trigger my normal gamer-sense.  I don't know exactly when to save and I am never sure when a dialog will be fluff or a real one, and I am seriously considering a second playthrough since it's obvious I won't be able to do everything in the social game.  It's cool because this makes it unlike any game I have played in recent memory, and that's exciting.  I can't rely on my twenty-year library of game conventions as much.  Also interacting with girls is hard, even fake ones.  Once I get out of this particular social portion, I can relax in a dungeon for a while.

F.E.A.R., although I'm not sure why I decided to start this up now.  It's not really because of the imminent sequel.  I am surprised at how much it reminds me of Blood, although I can't really put my finger on why.

I dropped Dungen Crawl Stone Soup and installed ZAngbandTK.  I gave up trying to get it to run after two tries and pulled down the base ZAngband.  I started it up and was impressed with character creation, then my @ arrived in town and everything went black.  I awoke in a puddle of drool.

My Too Human streak might be over.

[Rasix]

Heh, with Persona 4 I'm near the end but I can't get myself to complete it.  Mainly because I know that I'm going to need to grind quite a bit or the end is going to be tortuously difficult.  Also, I didn't complete Yosuke's SLINK so he still has the elemental weakness.  Not sure if I want to drop him because having two people with elemental weaknesses in my group will be annoying (Yukiko keeps hers).  Plus, I really don't have any great Personas at the moment.   

I'm going to shoot for the true ending, but I'll likely need to consult Gamefaqs to pull that.  Heh, it's remarkably easy to get a bad ending.  One wrong dialog choice with *spoiler deleted* can propel you to the end without resolving anything or catching the killer. 

I may do a replay to see if I can finish a run with every SLINK maxxed.  I made a lot of bad choices and didn't always have complimentary personas.  SLinks like Ai, the nurse, the young mother I made a ton of bad dialog choices and had a lot of sessions to level up.


skate 2 is really fun although incredibly difficult in some spots.  The speed they think you can maintain in some areas is somewhat ridiculous.

Valkryia Chronicles is amazing and continues to be amazing.  However, crash bugs are annoying. Apparently their known and completely random at the ends of chapter 9 or 10.  Still, I wish there were more games like this that combine great stylish visuals with unique and compelling gameplay.  And story, if you're into that.

Should BiiF both these titles but I think I've overshot the playtime on each to qualify. 

[apocrypha]

Got to a motorcycle mission in GTA4 that I failed like 10 times in a row. Combined with the required 5 minutes of crap careful driving to the mission site on the fragile motorbike before you get to retrying the difficult bit was enough to make me consign this game to the "probably never get any further" section.

Back to Prince of Persia now and started Warhawk too. Both games making me feel old because my reactions are so much slower than they used to be and I can't even blame codeine now 

[Segoris]

Lunar the Silver Star. Haven't played this in roughly 15-16 years (whenever it came out on Sega CD, I never did pick up the PS1 version). God damn I forgot how good of a game this is. Most likely play the Lunar: Eternal Blue sequel after finishing this one.

[Yegolev]

Back to Prince of Persia now and started Warhawk too. Both games making me feel old because my reactions are so much slower than they used to be and I can't even blame codeine now 

I am slowly accepting the fact that I am too old to catch the good fish in Animal Crossing.

[Signe]

You're not old.  Geez.  You can be such a woman sometimes!  YOU ARE NOT OLD!

[Yegolev]

I'm glad you are being positive, but do tell me why I cannot catch a coelacanth?

[schild]

I'm glad you are being positive, but do tell me why I cannot catch a coelacanth?

You haven't logged enough time on Wii Fit to catch a coelacanth, old man.

[apocrypha]

Hey I take back my old git comment anyway. I've been kicking bottom in Prince of Persia (despite being unable to string long combos together, gonna have to gamefaq that) and actually not making a total twat of myself in Warhawk!

I can't play Warhawk for long cos it's too adrenaline pumped, but I'm starting to get a feel for what a good game it is. Some hilarious and outrageous shit happens pretty much every game :)

[Stormwaltz]

I'm glad you are being positive, but do tell me why I cannot catch a coelacanth?

Because they're native to Africa, and Animal Crossing is set in Japan?