The useless what-I-am-playing thread

[Yegolev]

More and more Dead Rising.  Those convicts in the park combined with the crappy save system is making for some bullshit.

Pick "start new game" instead of "reload from save", that adds fun instead of takes it away.  Unless you are trying to do the missions, that is, but who wants to do that?

I may start over again since I just found the location of the katana.  Or... I could try and make it back on my own and let those Japanese tourists become zombie food.

Fuck those tourists.  There's a SMG to the left of the katana, jump onto the blue awning from the steps closest to the security room, go past the stuffed bear.  In the beginning area, you are getting the shotgun, right?  Shotgun kills asshole convicts dead, take down the gunner then driver... then take the minigun off the back of the hummer.  You don't want any Japanese tourists around when you get that thing.

[Signe]

Hopefully, in two days I'll be playing Odin Sphere.

Oh.  This isn't month 5.     I like how no one even bothered to correct me.  I had to find out on my own!  Bastards.  I'm tired of demos.  I guess I'll just sit in a dark basement and eat worms for a month.

It is month five, Goddammit!  What aren't you people telling me my brain is fucking up???  I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW! 

Umm... anyway... I'll be playing this later.    

[Yegolev]

On the twenty-second night of the fifth month, I played Okami.

[Yegolev]

I just booted Odin Sphere and it had sex with my eyes.

[schild]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh. Should have waited for the 1080p upgrade ya bastage.

[Yegolev]

Fuck you, I need eye sex.  But yes, in fact I shut it down so my wife can watch.  Back to Etria!

[Yegolev]

Ah, OK.  Odin Sphere last night.  The game, it tends to overload my brain, I think.  I don't know how many of you have a big problem with overstimulation, but I do and it is why I can't remember much from my first three trips to Walt Disney World.  My brain shuts down when innundated with too much information.  I can ignore things pretty easily, but just like a large, colorful and exciting theme park, I don't want to ignore one single detail of Odin Sphere.  Results were that my brain pretty much went into shutdown mode after the first area; this is notable because my attention and overload problems do not happen when I am playing games.  Movies, theme parks, women talking, all of that, but not games.  Not Rez.  Not Unreal Tournament.  I don't blank out with games, never.  Except for Odin Sphere.  I guess I could call it Painful Beauty, and I for one am glad that the combat is as simple as it is because the rest of it is not.

[Rasix]

I found one thing that when added to killing zombies, makes the entire experience greater.  Killing clowns. How the heck am I supposed to play anything else when presented with such a bounty?

Ohh yah, day 2 is funny.  Sorry, survivors, not enough time.  LOL, I actually ran by one screaming for help.  Can't say I felt bad either.

[Samwise]

2 years behind everyone else, I finally picked up Stubbs the Zombie because it's available on Steam now.  I'm loving it.  It's not like it's got great gameplay, but it has so much HEART that I don't care.  Zombies driving tractors... how is it nobody else thought of this before?

[schild]

Because your average zombie can't open a door, let alone put their hands on 10 and 2.

Was that rhetorical?

[Samwise]

The zombies in Return of the Living Dead could dial a phone.  And that one guy in Land of the Dead fired a gun.  I think they could have handled a tractor without too much trouble.  Such wasted potential.

Not to mention the dance-off, or the sheep-riding, or the tearing someone's arm off and beating them to death with it.  Just awesome.

[Raging Turtle]

Downloading HL: Episode 1 now, 10 bucks on steam.  Thinking about Stubbs but I hear it's exceptionally short (Yes, I know, I've heard the same thing about Ep 1).

Edit: Dl' Ep 1, not ep 2.

[Trippy]

Downloading HL: Episode 2 now, 10 bucks on steam.  Thinking about Stubbs but I hear it's exceptionally short (Yes, I know, I've heard the same thing about Ep 1).

Does the $10 get you Portal and TF2 too?

[Raging Turtle]

Crap, I meant downloading Ep 1 for 10 bucks.

[Phildo]

The zombies in Return of the Living Dead could dial a phone.  And that one guy in Land of the Dead fired a gun.  I think they could have handled a tractor without too much trouble.  Such wasted potential.

Not to mention the dance-off, or the sheep-riding, or the tearing someone's arm off and beating them to death with it.  Just awesome.

Shaun of the Dead taught us that zombies can play video games, too.

[Lt.Dan]

Are you guys really having a discussion about what zombies can and can't do? 

Just checkin'  ;)

Oh, and playing LOTRO and WoW.  Why?  Good question on both counts.

[squirrel]

Are you guys really having a discussion about what zombies can and can't do? 

Just checkin'  ;)

Oh, and playing LOTRO and WoW.  Why?  Good question on both counts.

Because you don't own Dead Rising? If not, I'm outta ideas.

[MrHat]

Does Etrian let you just close the DS and open it back to EXACTLY where you were before?  <---neccessary for commute.

Also, I'm in a huge gaming rut at the moment and can't get into anything really.  Loaded up Dawn of War finally, and got 3 missions in before I was bored.  Loaded up Starcraft, and am actually enjoying that for a bit.  I was discussing with Schild that I must secretly hate playing video games as I never ever play them past the 4-5 hour mark.  Except for WoW, but plenty of non-gamers play that.

[Xerapis]

Yeh, I'm still on WOW mostly.  Sporadically on LOTRO and EQ2.

But mostly WOW.  Branched out to Dath'Remar alliance and rolled up my ever-gruff Dwarf hunter Harguk!  At least it's not a dirty dirty NELF.  And I love pet classes.  I do have a gnome rogue and human warlock too...but not playing them nearly so much.  They're still newbies.  The warlock will be my disenchant monkey.

[murdoc]

I'm renovating my basement so my TV and game consoles are packed away at the moment :(

[schild]

Grim Grimoire, Atelier Iris 3, Picross DS (european version), Etrian Odyssey.

[caladein]

WoW mostly, some FF12 mixed in. I almost broke down and bought Titan Quest+Expansion (I didn't get it before as the demo touched my computer inappropriately, did they ever fix that?)... instead, I just started Diablo II - LoD again.

I needed my ding-lewts without 9-24 other idiots it seems.

[Yegolev]

Does Etrian let you just close the DS and open it back to EXACTLY where you were before?  <---neccessary for commute.

Yes but every DS game I have tried does that, except for Animal Crossing.  For EO it is fairly critical.

EDIT:  Oops, forgot.  Odin Sphere and Etrian Odyssey.  Going out of town again for the weekend, taking the Wii.  I won't bother to report what I played all weekend, but I am taking the DS and EO.

[Lt.Dan]

Are you guys really having a discussion about what zombies can and can't do? 

Just checkin'  ;)

Oh, and playing LOTRO and WoW.  Why?  Good question on both counts.

Because you don't own Dead Rising? If not, I'm outta ideas.

I played Dead Rising on my brother's 360 and um, not for me.  Great ideas but that save game system killed it for me.  That, and all my gaming muscle memory is keyboard and mouse - controller no good.

[Wolf]

I'm thinking about trying Republic Commando. Last time I did it was on the Xbox and I couldn't get into it. I'll try the PC version and see if it sticks...

[Zonk]

In the last week I have played: EQ2, LOTRO, SWG, Guild Wars, Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Odin Sphere, Pirates of the Carribean: At Worlds End (360), Hotel Dusk, Pokemon Pearl, Guitar Hero II (360), and Fallout 2.

The last was for an article I was writing; don't expect to do much more playing on that front in the near future. Oh those wacky post-apocalyptic settings.

[Samwise]

Downloading HL: Episode 1 now, 10 bucks on steam.  Thinking about Stubbs but I hear it's exceptionally short (Yes, I know, I've heard the same thing about Ep 1).

Ep 1 is shorter, but much more dense.  It's what single-player games should be IMO.

[NowhereMan]

Been messing around in Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, which is good fun if only for watching Space Marines bringing the smack down to various Xenos scum.

Just got and started playing Company of Heroes, I'm doing SP campaign on easy because one of the things I've found I really like in THQ games is setting troops up in defensive positions and watching the firefights movie style. This seems to become much more difficult on any other difficulty as I tend to lose track of everything else that's going on. I'm  not gonna get too much more of it till the weekend as I still have a couple of exams for my finals to do. Hopefully CoH won't be costing me a degree class or anything...

[McCow]

Etrian Odyssey. 

[schild]

Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm. About 8-10 hours a day.

[Rasix]

Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm. About 8-10 hours a day.

Does this game require you to play 1&2 to have any idea of what's going on?

[schild]

Atelier Iris 1, 2, and 3 are independent stories. Like Final Fantasy.

But also, much like final fantasy, the systems are on a learning curve. Well, maybe not. The 3rd one is the least tedious. It's very streamlined.

[Phildo]

Based on my experience with 1 & 2, it might be a good idea to play the older games first just so you have some concept of the universe.  Unlike Final Fantasy, the first two games take place in the same world some hundreds of years apart, so some of the locations are smilar, and there are tons of common threads.  That said, you probably don't need to if you can't find them/don't have the time, etc.  But they are both great games in and of themselves, totally worth playing.

Also, in the spirit of this thread, I'm currently wasting time with Wild Arms 3 until Atelier Iris' public release.  Also occasionally Titan Quest and Odin Sphere.

[DraconianOne]

Reinstalled Freespace 2 this weekend for some old style space-sim action.  Also playing GTA: San Andreas.  LOTR online is on-hold.

Oh - and for all  your zombie information, I recommend "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max "Son of Mel" Brooks.

[Yegolev]

I did not actually play any Wii games over the weekend, just Cranium and Etrian Odyssey.  My wife started playing Oblivion on the 360 when we got back.  The funny thing with her playing Oblivion is that she figured out very quickly that the "do anything" blurb is a complete lie.  I answered all of her "why" questions with "so it would fit on a 360 disc".  Her hate is growing, and when she strikes me down to take my place, the transformation will be complete.