The useless what-I-am-playing thread

[Yegolev]

Another weekend out of town for me, taking the family to Carowinds and not riding anything adult-flavored.  I took my DS along so that I could be assured of not having any time to play it.

Played a little split-screen Rainbow 6 Vegas while there but did not bother to import my user on the other 360.  After I got back, I was again invited to play some R6V and let myself be shot to bits in a couple matches until my wife was ready to play more Oblivion.  I decided to try Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin before going back to Etrian Odyssey but I was completely taken in and did not play anything else the rest of the short evening.  Portrait of Ruin is sexy.

[Rasix]

Beat Dead Rising.  Last boss fight was complete bullshit and if possible, even worse than the other boss fights.  Great game with some serious flaws.  Infinity mode is OK, but I'd just rather have a mode where I have saves, have all items available, the shortcut is unlocked, my life doesn't slowly decay, and I can just go around killing zombies without Otis bothering me about saving people. 

And Forza 2..  yah.. 

[Yoru]

Might as well update this...

PS2
* Guitar Hero 2 (beat medium over the weekend)
* FFXII
* God of War (somewhere in the middle, very slow burn)

Back burner: Bully, GoW2, Shadow of the Colossus, Disgaea 2

PC
* Eve
* JSettlers

Board/Card
* Lunch Money
* Apples to Apples

[HaemishM]

My fucking Xbox died, so no more FIFA for me. Fuck.

On a good note, I did pick Zelda on the Wii back up, and got past the part I was stuck on. Silly me forgot how to use the B button to grab multiple enemies and kill them. I feel like an idiot.

[Phildo]

Atelier Iris 3!  Sweet mission mode monotony!

[Signe]

Just downloaded a demo of 3D Language Spain.  Hope I learn something.

Pasta LaTaco, frienditos!

I have spent 60 minutes with this demo and have nothing to show for it except I might have dysentery.   

[Chimpy]

Just downloaded a demo of 3D Language Spain.  Hope I learn something.

Pasta LaTaco, frienditos!

I have spent 60 minutes with this demo and have nothing to show for it except I might have dysentery.   

Well it's a good thing you are sitting on the toilet then, isn't it?

 :-D

[Yegolev]

Three games are fighting hard, like Bruce-Lee-hard, for my playtime: Forza 2, Etrian Odyssey and Portrait of Ruin.  Forza 2 is currently winning, being the Second Coming of Racing Sims that it is.  The other two games are also very addictive and I am pretty torn between them; just the fact that they are DS games should say a lot.

Games lurking in my peripheral vision include Atelier Iris 3, Odin Sphere and Oblivion-360.  The main reason Oblivion has a presence in my consciousness is that my wife is playing it.  If you bother to check my achievements in Oblivion, every single one was unlocked by my wife.  Odin Sphere is held outside my center view because it keeps punching me in the balls.  Atelier Iris 3 is a side-item because I cannot play it without my wife being conscious, and she is busy with Oblivion.

I either need a clone or eleven meeeelion dollars.

[MrHat]

Heh. I recently bought my 360 and played like 8 hours of Crackdown (free rental).  Etrian Odyssey just arrived yesterday, and I'll play that on the train this afternoon.

The last few nights have been owned by Fall from Heaven.  Gears of War and Forza2 are still in plastic! Damn you Civ4, damn you!

[Sky]

Yeah, FfH is laying the smacketh. I had to take off some time last night to play some guitar.

I think I've got a week of vacation in the next month or so, I really need to dig into Gothic 3 at some point. Not to mention climbing the learning curve of X3, and finishing off MUA (I keep going back to the beginning to start new supergroups. I wish you could get a Black Powah group for Storm, Black Panther, Blade and Luke Cage.

[Yegolev]

I thought Storm was Indian.

[HaemishM]

I'm getting more into Zelda with my Xbox down, and I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone could say this is not a gorgeous graphical game. It's just beautiful.

[Sky]

I thought Storm was Indian.

African.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_%28Marvel_Comics%29

[MrHat]

I'm getting more into Zelda with my Xbox down, and I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone could say this is not a gorgeous graphical game. It's just beautiful.

Only if I plug it into my 24" 12yr old tv upstairs.  On my 2 year old 60" 1080p main tv, it tends to lose a bit of shine.

[Yegolev]

I'm getting more into Zelda with my Xbox down, and I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone could say this is not a gorgeous graphical game. It's just beautiful.

Because my TV was made in the 21st century maybe.  My own fault, I am sure, but it has a certain graininess in the textures that you mostly see in crossplatform titles.  This should not be a surprise since it actually is a cross-platform title.  Without using the Nintendo version of a web-safe pallette (Metroid Prime, Paper Mario), everything tends to look bad.  Looks better than Warrior Within but not as good as Wind Waker.  It's not something that I'm going to get a grainy vagina over, though.

My issue with Twilight Princess has more to do with the phoned-in game design rather than graphics, but the inevitable and unfavorable comparisons to Okami certainly don't help things.

[schild]

Didn't look as good as Resident Evil 4. That's a problem.

[HaemishM]

I'm getting more into Zelda with my Xbox down, and I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone could say this is not a gorgeous graphical game. It's just beautiful.

Because my TV was made in the 21st century maybe. 

My TV is less than 2 years old. It just isn't HD. Nothing is Resident Evil 4. That game is pretty fucking close to graphical perfection, IMO.

But for overall art design, Twilight Princess is pretty goddamn pretty.

[schild]

Well, RE4 Wii I think is the best argument against the Wii.

It's the PS2 games content + the GCs textures with some tacked on controls.

I'll play it and love it. But that description pretty much defines Nintendo thus far.

[Yegolev]

I'm not going to argue opinions, but good call on my hyperbole with the TV age; I know you don't have the HDTV and in this case I think you are better off.  Twilight Princess comes off as grainy and brown to me, but I liked Wind Waker's art and don't have a problem with it reducing the color scope so it can look good.  I wanted a Zelda game that looked more like a Zelda game rather than Shadow of the Colossus.  I got the stylized characters but did not get the vibrant colors.  Fortunately I have Okami for my "hero dog with annoying helper RPG with item-collection-instead-of-levels-and-dark-light-world" game.

It is also very true that Twilight Princess does not look as good as RE4, but I would overlook that if the gameplay was more engaging.  I don't, for example, have a problem playing Phantom Dust on the 360 even though it looks grainy and washed-out, since it's a great game and I don't know of a suitable alternative to that gameplay.

Since I did not have a problem aiming in RE4 on the Cube, I can't see myself getting RE4Wii.

[Sky]

Anyone know if RE4 PC is going to be patched to goodness or not? I'd guess not, but I would like to play it, since I loved the remake and zero.

[Signe]

Playing Fate until CoV double xp weekend, though I play every now and then so I don't forget how.  I never got very far in Fate anyway and it's a fun diversion.   It also fills my loot whore needs nicely. 

[Yegolev]

Etrian Odyssey.  I keep finding new things and still quite frequently feel lucky to be alive after some battles.  I also felt some panic when I realized that I forgot to buy a warp wire last time I was in town.  Lots of emotion from such a simple game.

I also downloaded the Ninja Gaiden Sigma demo, and my boner knocked over the coffee table.  I'm such a slut.

[NowhereMan]

I've started playing Fallout for the first time, took a wee bit of getting used to (modern games really have me spoiilt with autosaves and gentle easy intros) but I can see why it's so popular. Hoping to be able to devote some serious time to it fairly soon as I've only really dipped into it. At the moment I can only fir my pistol once per turn and basically rely on the NPCs to really kill anything worthwhile.

[MrHat]

Etrian Odyssey.  I keep finding new things and still quite frequently feel lucky to be alive after some battles.  I also felt some panic when I realized that I forgot to buy a warp wire last time I was in town.  Lots of emotion from such a simple game.

I also downloaded the Ninja Gaiden Sigma demo, and my boner knocked over the coffee table.  I'm such a slut.

Hah, I should get some of these demos, I want to give Overlord a try since I actually did enjoy Fable up to a point.

Also, I'm <3 Etrian.  The map thingy seems to add alot more depth and makes me care a lot more.  Also, I've already had near party wipes and I'm only 2 hours in!

[Azazel]

Since I've upgraded my box, I've binned the self-flagellation that Is Doom3+expack for the time being and am playing my way through both Far Cry and Half-Life 2 again, but with gfx settings turned way up. A touch of BF2, a bit of WoW, and a starting of HoM&M V. I love tactics-type games so it's great.

[schild]

Also, I'm <3 Etrian.  The map thingy seems to add alot more depth and makes me care a lot more.  Also, I've already had near party wipes and I'm only 2 hours in!

I wiped 15 minutes in.

Twice.

[Yoru]

Corrupted my GH2 save by shutting it off at the wrong time yesterday.

Didn't realize it until today. Starting replaying medium, 5-starring shit like there's no tomorrrow. :)

[schild]

I can't 5-star medium. It's too slow and missing too many notes :(

[Moaner]

So uh... I've played nothing but Forza 2, the new Pac Man game (which rocks my ass), and VF5.  Poor Dragon Quarter, on the backlog it goes.

[schild]

I started playing Silent Hill 2 for realz for the first time. Also, I finished the Folk's Soul (to be called Folklore in America) demo on the PS3. That is, by far, the best looking game in existence. It blows EVERYTHING on the 360 away. Including Gears of War.

Also, playing Gold of Juarez every now and again. And will probably finish Atelier Iris 3 today. Finally.

[Driakos]

I played City of Heroes all weekend.  A little Forza 2 as well.  Trying to make a Venture Bros. car design.

[Strazos]

Odin Sphere, and CivIV's Fall From Heaven mod.

Also, Gemstone IV. Big Lolz.

[Chimpy]

I played about 10 'years' of Sid Meier's Pirates today. I think I may continue this guy and see how afraid of me I can make the Spainards by the time I am too old to swachbuckle anymore.

I need to find a new game to play, but that requires investing money in some kind of newer game platform, which I have none of (money) at the moment.

[Velorath]

I'm preparing for another go through of all the old Gold Box stuff.  Might go through all the Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale stuff after that.  It depends on if anything good has come out by the time I'm done with the Gold Box games.  Also whipped out Master of Orion 2, with the intentions of playing it again sometime in the near future.  Years back when I lived with a room-mate, we had a running competition for months to see who could get the highest score.  Good times.

[Yegolev]

Finally got some traction in Atelier Iris 3.  It is awesome.  Otherwise, I went to a wedding, which was actually awesome as well (Chinese theme, bagpipe instead of organ, outdoors, and Guns-n-Roses in violin form).  I pressure-washed half of my back porch while my wife played Oblivion, after which I played a bit.