So, what're you playing?

[rattran]

Based on Bunk's link, I got Fook2 for Fallout3. Lots of fun, buggy, weird texture issues, useless forums/devs, but fun. It's giving me impetus for one more playthrough.

And 8 hours of gameplay sucks for $59.99 Fuck 'em.

[Rasix]

I'm going to pistol whip the next person that says "shenanigans".

[Hindenburg]

"shenanigans".

[Rasix]

[Hindenburg]

Pussy.

[schild]

[fuser]

And 8 hours of gameplay sucks for $59.99 Fuck 'em.

For some reason us canucks have a 2-3day sale on it. $35USD at any big/major game store. I'm calling Shenanigans!

[Signe]

Every time someone says shenanigans I crave ice cream.  I don't know why. 

[fuser]

$35USD at any big/major game store.

Except for staples, was $59.99 there but the only place in stock of ps3 so they pricematch at 10% off difference, not bad $31USD for Arkham

[Paelos]

I started up Puzzle Quest: Warlords again. It's just so silly and fun.

[Azazel]

I do that to an extent as well, and sometimes it's simply because I'm afraid that I'll get locked out from an area and never be able to get back to it.

This.

[Yegolev]

Perhaps coincidentally, I think I missed out on some Things in Last Remnant and might have to play it again.  This is because the last three bosses I have fought were people I previously did side quests for, and seeing them consecutively gave me a end-of-The-Usual-Suspects feeling.  This game, maybe it was my low expectations but I'm continually impressed by the effort put into it.

Also, fired up Guild Wars again.  Made a new character called Waiting Fortwo.  It's simultaneously good and showing its age in a bad way.  I am particularly happy about getting 60fps with everything maxed at 1680x1050.

[Cyrrex]

Perhaps coincidentally, I think I missed out on some Things in Last Remnant and might have to play it again.  This is because the last three bosses I have fought were people I previously did side quests for, and seeing them consecutively gave me a end-of-The-Usual-Suspects feeling.  This game, maybe it was my low expectations but I'm continually impressed by the effort put into it.

How many billions of hours have you put into this game?  I think a few pages back you talked me out of buying it, but damn if your enthusiasm isn't still getting to me.

[Murgos]

I had been looking forward to getting Last Remnant but all the 'meh' press kind of put me off it.  JRPG reviews can be incredibly fickle though, it's such a manic depressive subset of nerds that one aspect of a game can make them froth with rage at an otherwise excellent product or blow effervescent rainbows at pure shit.

[Typhon]

Every time someone says shenanigans I crave ice cream.  I don't know why. 

Shenanigans!  Make mine Cherry Garcia!

[Sky]

TUTTI FUCKIN' FRUTTI

[Yegolev]

How many billions of hours have you put into this game?

Not entirely sure, but I play it almost every night.  I'm on disc 2 of 2.

I think a few pages back you talked me out of buying it, but damn if your enthusiasm isn't still getting to me.

Do you want me to talk you into it?  It does not have cat girls.  Beyond that: WARNING!


Apologies to anyone who read all this without finding Treasure.  Not everything inside spoiler tags is porn.

[Sky]

Every time someone says shenanigans I crave ice cream.  I don't know why. 

If I say crenanigans will you shave ice cream?

[Tarami]

I've been playing Wolfenstein. It's fun and I really like the shooter element. Although, some monsters, like the flaming zombie nazis, are retarded and piss me off.

God, I really am a sucker for simplistic shooters.

[Ard]

As Murgos mentioned, the reviews for it are not throbbing with happiness.  I read the IGN one and while it is not favorable, I'd cite it as one of the worst reviews I have read for any game, ever.  In particular, the reviewer leaves out nearly all good points while including questionable bad ones, like bad performance which seems tied to his 360 since I don't seem to have it as bad as he does. 

One thing of note, with the performance issues listed in early reviews.  The reviewers almost universally got copies before the NXE launched for the Xbox, which means they didn't have the option to install the disks.  Installed, it's mostly okay, outside of a few effects and the occassional random slowdown.

I'm liking the game so far myself though, but lotro keeps getting in the way of my playtime with it, but I'm only on disk 1 so far, and like 12 hours in.

Another thing to note, the PC version supposedly has alot more content and replayability than the Xbox version.  It had a fair amount added to it, and I didn't find this out until after I'd picked up a cheap Xbox copy.  Just make sure you know what you're getting into if you pick it up.

[Yegolev]

I believe the PC version of Last Remnant is also easier in places, like with the number of items you need to gather for quests like The Assistant.  Differences are noted in lastremnant.wikia.com but I have not studied the wiki since I love the ample discovery element.

An annoying thing about the wiki, which my wife reads while I play, is that it does not seem to contain anything about the DLC.

[schild]

I played the pc version for about 5 hours before quitting. Id like to say Yeg is only playing it because the last 3-4 months have been terrible for gaming as TLR is wholly mediocre. Maybe he'll notice Mana Khemia 2 came out today.

[Rasix]

Yeg liked Blue Dragon if I remember correctly.  Tollerance for grind/crap is high.

Still mostly just playing Shadow Complex and WoW.  Shadow Complex is possibly the best download only game I've ever played. Provides a more than adequate Super Metroid fix.

[Cyrrex]

Yegolev, I'm sure my question didn't warrant such a detailed response, but I appreciate the effort anyway.  What is it about the game that has your wife so fascinated?  You seem to mention it every time you discuss the game, so I'm genuinely curious.

Semi-fake edit:  the reason for my curiosity is because I have also got the impression from you that she wouldn't ordinarily be interested in watching you play stupid video games.  Maybe I got that part wrong.

[Yegolev]

Maybe he'll notice Mana Khemia 2 came out today.

Came out on the 25th.  I brought this home yesterday.  Still in Chapter 9 of the first one, dammit.  I play MK once the wife goes to bed.

Yeg liked Blue Dragon if I remember correctly.  Tollerance for grind/crap is high.

This is fair.  I wanted to like Blue Dragon (and Lost Odyssey) but gave up.  I saw all the mechanics inside the first hour and got bored; it is very simple and overall mediocre.  LO was a better game by far but the combat kneecapped this one for me.  I do have a healthy grind tolerance but it has to be fun, no more odometer-style fun for me.

In this case, there are some things about Last Remnant that I enjoy enough to ignore the crap.  The fact that I keep finding new gameplay details and nuances is a huge part of that.  I mean, I randomly talk to a town leader and he hands me a key to a dungeon for no real reason.  I also need to restate the bit about how three sidequest NPCs turned out to be main-story bosses.  They did not start off seeming like bad guys, for one thing, just jackoffs in the pub who had a sidequest.  Only when I fought the second one did I notice the similarities between them, namely they were all albino and wore similar outfits; since there are three more fortresses in the set, I'm wondering who the next one will be because I don't remember seeing anyone else like that.  I'm in fucking suspense in a game for the first time in a while.

Unfortunately, five hours is not nearly enough to find anything notable about this game.  Definitely a slow-starter with little promise for improvement.  I'd have probably quit there also if not for the fact that JRPGs count as couple-time in my house and -- as schild said -- nothing else good is out in the AAA JRPG space.  I did not care for it at all for quite a while (having the same voice talent as Star Ocean: The Last Hope sure as fuck did not help).  The numerous details and nuances only come out after many hours of play, which might be less of a design flaw if the manual and/or the guidebook was any use at all.  Major game elements are not even mentioned and the rest are vaguely described.

I'm sure the fact that I thought it was garbage at first but surprised me so many times is a large contributor to my fascination.

Yegolev, I'm sure my question didn't warrant such a detailed response, but I appreciate the effort anyway.

Hello, I'm Yegolev and I'm coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs.  I don't think we have met.

What is it about the game that has your wife so fascinated?  You seem to mention it every time you discuss the game, so I'm genuinely curious.

The same things that have most any girl interested in anime: pretty boys with bad attitudes, insipid characters, annoying sidekicks, etc.

Semi-fake edit:  the reason for my curiosity is because I have also got the impression from you that she wouldn't ordinarily be interested in watching you play stupid video games.  Maybe I got that part wrong.

This is understandable if you're not playing Yegolev: The Home Game.  My wife is almost exclusively the reason I play anything with the Squeenix name on it.  I'd never have went near Star Ocean if she didn't want to watch me play it.  Man, I hate the previous one so much.  Basically, instead of watching TV once the boy is in bed like a normal couple, she watches it play a shiny JRPG or it gets the hose.  This is also why I have to wait for her to go to bed to play Prototype, Mana Khemia or any PC game.  I'm not complaining since it could be far worse.

I have Shadow Complex demo loaded but have not tried it yet.  It's on the list.

[Rasix]

Lost Odyssey killed me with the combat too.  I think I was well into the second disc when I just couldn't stomach it anymore.  Plus, once you get your own vehicle, the game seemed to have fallen apart.  It got ridiculous fast.

I may pick it up again someday, but I don't think I can stomach the large portions of the game where you simply cannot save.

[Yegolev]

I don't think I can stomach the large portions of the game where you simply cannot save.

I know, right?  Did I mention Last Remnant has save-anywhere?

[Ard]

I like Last Remnant because it shares alot with the romancing saga games in feel.  It has random skill learning based on what you do, it has a large cast, and it has almost random plot and subplot advancement, depending on where you're wandering around and who you talk to.  It almost feels like an extension of that series to me, more than it's own game.  I also recognize that it's not a sort of game everyone likes, especially with the hard to control leveling.

[Hawkbit]

Still playing Infamous.  I really, really like the game.  Normally I can't stand playing through games more than once, but this one I might go for many playthroughs.  I'm terrible at action games and oddly, this one bumped my level up to hard.  Interesting.

Also playing WoW, checking out some of the Argent Tournament stuff on my DK.  Getting marks and stuff together to buy heirloom gear for a worgen rogue when they launch. 

Bought PS3 Chronicles of riddick game (includes butcher bay) for $20 the other day, going to check that out soon too.

[Yegolev]

The price drop on the Riddick game is telling.  What sort of things do you get in the new one?  I'm thinking it is just a very-delayed expansion, and I can't see how it could live up to the first one.

Kinda like the movies.

[NiX]

Finally hooked my PS2 back up and I'm picking up where I left off in FF12. The combat works for me, despite being a bit automatic, but maybe that's the appeal. No repeated "attack -> monster" crap.

[jakonovski]

I finally have Resident Evil 4, I've been planning to get it ever since it came out but never got around to it. I wonder how it's going to be, my previous experience is RE2 on the PS1.

[Azazel]

Friends came over for the first time in awhile and did some more LAN Titan Quest. Always fun. Up to Act 2 on the hardest difficulty now. We only play as a group, so we have a 2-4 hour session every few weekends, usually Friday nights after work and dinner and some chatter.

Grinded (Ground?) out almost 1k of health in EDF last night with the wife, after figuring out the best way to do it. I figure if we can get enough HP, then we'll be able to finish all those missions that are harder and make her not want to play it with me anymore.

After polishing off Far Cry 2 earlier in the week, I went back into my archives of half-finished games and spent some time with The Incredible Hulk on 360, which continues to be all around bearably average. I also decided that I should finish off Just Cause, as I quite liked it, and what turned me off it in the first polace was simply achievement whoring in their horrible broken time-trial races. My last save is just shy of a year ago. (Now I remember, I started playing Saints Row 1 so that I could move right onto Saints Row 2, which is what happened.)

So anyway, I can't remember how to control this thing properly after a year, so I got WTFPWNED a couple of times and then turned my 360 off.  Still wanna finish it, though. But mostly so I'll have finished it, and can then justifiably put it away forever.

I'll probably get back to a little Fallout 3 next weekend, but kinda holding off on that as well for the next retail DLC disc in a few weeks.

[MisterNoisy]

Just picked up the new Professor Layton, so that for a day or so.  Beyond that, not much.

[Hawkbit]

The price drop on the Riddick game is telling.  What sort of things do you get in the new one?  I'm thinking it is just a very-delayed expansion, and I can't see how it could live up to the first one.

Kinda like the movies.

I was only able to put 1/2 hour in or so looking at both games.  I never played Butcher Bay and it has updated graphics.  To me, graphically, both games look the same.  They even play the same.  If BB is updated graphics from 2004, then Dark Athena looks pretty bad for a 2009 game. 

Gameplay is a little rough, but I'll likely put some time into it because I like the IP.  I don't know why, I just do.  Can't even find any real redeeming values to it, I just have fun with it. 

I'll try to get back in a week or so and give a better impression.