The useless what-I-am-playing thread

[Tebonas]

Dead Rising is that good? Maybe I should go out and buy it so that I have it at hand when the Elite arrives in Europe.

[Yegolev]

Dead Rising is that good only if you like driving a lawnmower over zombies, or running them down in a car, or slicing them in half with a katana, or using wrestling moves on them, or sticking a shower head in the top of their skulls and watching them bleed to death comically, or knocking them over with a bowling ball, or impaling them with a lead pipe so that they bleed to death, or putting a bucket/traffic cone/novelty mask over their heads and kicking them down stairs, or lopping their heads off with a sickle, or cutting them in half with a chainsaw, or putting a red-hot frying pan on their faces.  As for the excavator, I can't even describe that one.  There is also a plot that Man's Man Journalist, Frank West, must uncover.

I finally got around to getting one of the endings last night, the "Frank is looking out for Number One ending", after killing nearly 54,000 zombies.  This happens to unlock the Real Mega Buster, which works much better than the toy version.

I also forgot to mention in my last post that I played Sneak King on the 360, starting over since my previous files are on the Xbox.

I don't have a problem with the Dead Rising save system, unless you mean that it is in fact a urinal.  On the contrary, I love it.  Killjoy did not like the game until I explained how it works, after which he became obsessed with it.  He admitted that he should have read the manual or perhaps just the menu after he died.

Edited for clarity.

[McCow]

I have what I'm playing + a retarded backlog.

DS: Puzzle Quest...again.  I can't put this title down.
PC: Vampire the Masquerade (Though I'm tempted to do Company of Heroes...for a third time).  Got done with Immortal Throne.
360: Dead Rising (Still in the packaging...really need to get this), Crackdown (100 Agil orbs to go) and I probably should 100% Lego Star Wars
PS2:  I need to finish Final Fantasy (~40 hours in), God of War (Almost done...Athena?) and Dragon Quest VIII (~30 hours in).  I also have Diseaga 2 (which is so deep it scares me), Okami and ICO sitting unplayed + more that are  as I'm embarrassed to say I haven't played them.  (The PS2 catalog was bought on the cheap so I have massive amounts of catchup to do.)

[Ironwood]

 watching them bleed to death comically,

Zombies ?  Some mistake, surely.

[Driakos]

 watching them bleed to death comically,

Zombies ?  Some mistake, surely.

It's more of the 7 inches of shower head pipe stuck in the top of their head.  Just so happens, while they're dying, blood sprays from the shower head.

[murdoc]

I don't have a problem with the Dead Rising save system, unless you mean that it is in fact a urinal.  On the contrary, I love it.  Killjoy did not like the game until I explained how it works, after which he became obsessed with it.  He admitted that he should have read the manual or perhaps just the menu after he died.

Edited for clarity.

Think it's more of a 'dammit, died again... now I have to do all that OVER again. It also doesn't help that I'm pretty terrible at Dead Rising for some reason.

[Yegolev]

I appreciated the fact that you can keep your PP and even clothing because it gave me hope of finishing one day.  The problem is that you can't make easy progress along the storyline until you are at least level 20.  I just started trying to solve the cases and I'm level 32.  The Real Mega Buster is near cheating, it's almost as bad as the Alucard Shield.  If you want to put in some time driving over zombies, I can give you a simple route to do that.  Once you smash 53,594 of the fuckers, you just have to get an ending that doesn't involve you being eaten and that is as simple as standing on the helipad until noon on Sept 22.

There is still a lot of fun to be had in just beating up on the zombies with whatever you have handy, for me at any rate.

[Strazos]

My free copy of Shadow of the Colossus arrived from Sony a few days ago...

Another title to add to the pile.

[Driakos]

I cannot remember what level it was, but once I got the Hammer Throw move, Dead Rising got a lot easier.  Knee Drop didn't hurt either.

[Sky]

I thought the whole point of Dead Rising is that you just keep playing through, gaining abilities, until you can finally beat it? Sounds wicked, one of the games that really tempts me. Going to be hard when GTA4 ships, imo. And now my frakkin DAD is considering the Elite 360. Dammit. You'd think he'd consider getting one for his only progeny on earth, but nooo. And he has a newer 1080p DLP. Dammit.

Wait, what?

[Yegolev]

I thought the whole point of Dead Rising is that you just keep playing through, gaining abilities, until you can finally beat it?

Yeah, that's how I go at it.  Laugh at your death and restart, skip the cutscenes and get back to work.

I have a hard time with the hammer throw and the suplex unless I catch them unawares otherwise I end up doing the lift, but the knee drop is good when I can pull it off.  The double lariat seems to get me killed.  Getting better at the roundhouse kick, too, which is pretty useful right after a jump kick.  For my money, the jump kick is the best move; easy to perform and lets you go anywhere, even more than the zombie walk most of the time.

I'm more of a Engineering Book+lead pipe/2x4 kinda guy, but now I have the Mega Buster for tight spots.

[Driakos]

I hate the couple frames of vulnerability after the jump kick though.  Sometimes when I jump into a crowd of zombies, and don't get them all with the Jump/Round combo,  I get unwanted hugs.

The lift is pretty good too, just sometimes the crowd is so thick, they hit you before you can chuck your lifted.

Double lariat gets me murdered.  It's good on the specOps guys though.

I am on the 24 hour mode at the moment.  (for months actually)  I need to fire it back up so I can get to the real game, survival mode.  I just hated the errand runs, and ended up not playing.  I should get the real mega-buster.  Most of my boss murdering comes from the sledge hammer, the semi-stun you get from a good hit, saves your life.  Carlito, the priest, hardware redneck, and the grocery warrior can't handle the sledge.

GH2 is all I have been playing lately.  It makes me forget about everything else for an hour.

[Yegolev]

The Mega Buster, it one-shots Carlito.  I mean, I popped him once with it and suddenly he's on his little rope to the ceiling, no intervening asshattery behind the shop signs.  Same with the prisoners, although I still grabbed the minigun off the hummer since, well, it's a fucking minigun (killed that girl I was trying to save with it, oops, that thing is hard to control sometimes).  Also, the Mega Buster holds 300 rounds.  Get the MegaMan helmet to go with it and you'll be laughing your way to victory.

[Velorath]

I appreciated the fact that you can keep your PP and even clothing because it gave me hope of finishing one day.  The problem is that you can't make easy progress along the storyline until you are at least level 20.

I restarted once at lv. 7 and then proceeded to play all the way through the game.  The most important thing to remember is that Columbia Roastmasters is pretty close to the exit of the warehouse and has an unlimited supply of OJ and a Katana on the awning.  The second most important thing to remember is that you can give people you're escorting weapons (and they won't run out of ammo and the weapons won't break).  Give them a shotgun (especially if you only have a few shots left with it) or a Katana or something and they can actually be pretty helpful at times.

[Yegolev]

It is terribly out of character for me, but I just have no interest in mixing drinks in Dead Rising.  But yeah, nectar is really easy to get.

Did you use the books and such?  It's certainly possible to play the game at a low level but jeez!  Aside from that, my biggest problem has been that I like to stop listening to Otis and just kill zombies, which isn't terribly helpful in making progress.

So, last night Dead Rising, I think, and a little Ar tonelico, and a little Super Mario World.  A little bit of Twilight Princess, too, or what my son calls Big Zelda.  Link to the Past is Little Zelda.  Tonight, going to be humiliated in multiplayer R6:Vegas.

[Velorath]

It is terribly out of character for me, but I just have no interest in mixing drinks in Dead Rising.  But yeah, nectar is really easy to get.

Did you use the books and such?  It's certainly possible to play the game at a low level but jeez!  Aside from that, my biggest problem has been that I like to stop listening to Otis and just kill zombies, which isn't terribly helpful in making progress.

So, last night Dead Rising, I think, and a little Ar tonelico, and a little Super Mario World.  A little bit of Twilight Princess, too, or what my son calls Big Zelda.  Link to the Past is Little Zelda.  Tonight, going to be humiliated in multiplayer R6:Vegas.

You don't need to mix drinks.  A gallon of OJ fills up pretty much all of your health at low levels and even at high levels it fills up a lot.  At Columbian Roast Masters, you can just keep grabbing gallons of OJ off the shelf (it's kind of a little cooler type thing kind near the counter and by the window).

I pretty much never used books.  Sometimes I'd turn on the game and mess around killing zombies, running them down in cars, and playing with weapons, but I wouldn't usually save the game after.


Edit:  Regardless though, there isn't really a wrong way to play through this game.  If you want to restart a lot, go around killing zombies, and not really try to make your way through the cases until you're a higher level, there's certianly no problem with that.

[Johny Cee]

I appreciated the fact that you can keep your PP and even clothing because it gave me hope of finishing one day.  The problem is that you can't make easy progress along the storyline until you are at least level 20.  I just started trying to solve the cases and I'm level 32.  The Real Mega Buster is near cheating, it's almost as bad as the Alucard Shield.  If you want to put in some time driving over zombies, I can give you a simple route to do that.  Once you smash 53,594 of the fuckers, you just have to get an ending that doesn't involve you being eaten and that is as simple as standing on the helipad until noon on Sept 22.

There is still a lot of fun to be had in just beating up on the zombies with whatever you have handy, for me at any rate.

Heh.  What did the Alucard Shield do again?  Symphony of the Night, right?

I just remember always telling myself I wouldn't go to the reverse library and farm up the Crissaegrim (the weapon that spit a rain of blades in front of you slaughtering everying)  and I'd find myself doing it EVERY TIME.

[Glazius]

Heh.  What did the Alucard Shield do again?  Symphony of the Night, right?

I just remember always telling myself I wouldn't go to the reverse library and farm up the Crissaegrim (the weapon that spit a rain of blades in front of you slaughtering everying)  and I'd find myself doing it EVERY TIME.

When you use the Shield Rod and Alucard Shield at the same time, the shield turns into a death vortex that soul drains anything you block with it. This includes shield-ramming the major bosses.

--GF

[Signe]

I am now playing Belle's Beauty Boutique.  This minute.

[TheWalrus]

F.E.A.R. after Schilds recommendation about a year ago I believe. Awesome. Only game to ever make me say "Oh fuck you" in response to being scared out of my skull. Damn fine jump scenes.

[Rasix]

Finished God of War 2 and Fallout 2 today.  I have to say, the end of God of War 2 was a disappointment.  The last fight was just lame. No way this game gets a GOTY nod from me.  Everything they added to the game I disliked.  I'd rank it a full point lower than God of War 1 on 10 point scale.   

Fallout 2 holds up over time.  That was totally worth the replay. 

Now what to do?  Need a WoW break, hit the burn-out wall head on rather suddenly.  Perhaps Shadow Hearts 3.

[schild]

Shadow Hearts 3 isn't going to help much.

This week is weak for releases. Very weak. But the following week has a few solid portable titles and Monster Madness for the 360. And then things really start to pick up.

[Yegolev]

After getting enough time in Rainbow Six: Vegas to figure it out, I can say that the singleplayer is booooring and the multi is fun.  Even when I am playing with actual military guys; it helps that they are all decent players that never toss a grenade when we have agreed to stick to pistols.

More Ar tonelico, and it's starting to get a bit dull with the incredible on-rails play... that unlocks dresses.

[Moaner]

I ended up checking out my girlfriend's gametap account and falling in love with Might and Magic IV Clouds of Xeen.  I think I'm going to have to sub up and finish M&M IV and V.  They just don't make RPGs like that anymore. 

I was quite impressed with Gametap too.  Looks like there are quite a few games I'd actually play.  Not that I have the time... but why not throw more on the pile.

I completely finished Disgaea 1 for the 2nd time.  Yay!

[Yegolev]

Gametap, it's good just for the new Sam + Max games.  Also has Planescape and X-COM.

Got almost to the end of FFXII last night.  I trashed The Undying, being level 69 means YAWN.  Anyway, my son cried out during the final cinematic and I just put down the controller to go check on him, not remembering that I can pause cutscenes.  While I am going up the stairs, my wife tries to pause it and somehow manages to reboot the PS3.  We watched the ending on YouTube.  I had started it up again and was about to do some more hunts, but then I remembered where they all are.  Fuck that tower.  I think it's time for Shadowhearts 2.

More Ar tonelico after that, and R6V earlier in the day.

[Strazos]

I finally got around to finishing La Pucelle Tactics. Finally, I can play something else.

I liked most of the game, except for the character advancement system - I hate when important systems like this are handled "under the hood." Also, except for healing and ATK buffs, magic was useless in this game. Useless. Oh well.

[Bunk]

Just got my 360, been playing Dead Rising, NHL2k7 and Gears of War.

After reading this thread, I think I'll try the run around and kill zombies for xp then restart approach and get some levels. Silly me had this idea that I would sneak up on Carlito and he would drop when I shot him. Uh, no. Helps that I finally figured out which button skips the cinematics.

GoW is a pretty cool shooter, though that stupid beserker at the end of level one is pissing me off. Wouldn't be so bad if I could save part way through. It would also help if I didn't suck at shooters.

NHL2k is love. What the hell made me think that EA hockey had to be better becuase it was more expensive?

[murdoc]

NHL2k is love. What the hell made me think that EA hockey had to be better becuase it was more expensive?

NHL2k7 with the control stick would of been the bomb-diggity.

[Furiously]

I am now playing Belle's Beauty Boutique.  This minute.

Watch out for Prom Night.

[Strazos]

NHL2k7 is pure hockey bliss. It's the first real hockey video game I have even liked since NHL 99 on PSone.

[Yegolev]

Bunk, head up north to the hardware store.  Crislip's.

[Yegolev]

Metal Saga.  Paid 20,000 for a tank, found out it was an anti-aircraft tank.  Four main guns but can only put AA on there?  Bleh.  Still, I think I will fit it out with AA and tow it around for emergencies.

[Paelos]

I'm playing Star Wars: Rebellion. It's like Star Wars: Total War if that possibly existed, which would freaking rule. But they just let it die and never picked it up again to improve it. That's one of the things I'd remedy if I were running Lucasarts, but what can you do.

[Rasix]

I'm playing Star Wars: Rebellion. It's like Star Wars: Total War if that possibly existed, which would freaking rule. But they just let it die and never picked it up again to improve it. That's one of the things I'd remedy if I were running Lucasarts, but what can you do.

Most people I know hated that game with a burning passion.  I liked it a lot, however.  One of those games where you pause to look up and it's 4am.

[Ironwood]

It was called Supremacy over here and I liked it a lot.