Elder Scrolls Online.

Final Fantasy XIV because that's pretty much all I play anymore.

Playing Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn. Just doing Bahamut Coils and Crystal Tower runs for endgame gear.

Child of Light (PC):
This is the first JRPG where I can say that it needs MORE battles, not less.

O_o

Gun Valkyrie for ye olde Xbox

Back on MegaMan Legends

Edit: Finished MegaMan Legends last night. Currently on MegaMan Legends 2

Just finished Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Great game, SP wise that is. Now onto Modern Warfare 3.

Soul Caliber Lost Swords

Read a news article about Darksiders.

Decided to play Darksiders 2.

Read a news article about Bound by Flame.

Decided to never play Bound by Flame :D

Gone back to Saints Row 2 and work on the last three achievements I need for 100%

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
Phantasy Star Portable 2

Was playing Master Reboot, but I'm taking a break after getting the shit scared out of me. Twice.

NEO Scavenger. It's beta as all hell but shows real promise.

Back into Skyrim after six months away (and a system switch from windows to linux... now that was fun.) Like everyone else I hit critical mass and lost my joy for the game after about the 250 hour mark. I kept up with mods from the nexus to spice things up and then in October last year, BLAM - no more windows laptop (yes, I game on a laptop and no, I don't surround myself with fans), fortunately I had a stick with Mint 16 on hence the switch. Now the fun part has been learning enough Linux language to get WINE and the OS to play nice with Skyrim but last week it all clicked and I was back in Helgen (I decided to start a totally fresh game) since then I haven't had much time to play but the joy of rediscovery is immense and this weekend is clear, Yippee

On PS3:
Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn - Leveling Archer, currently lv 26
Army of Two : The Devil's Cartel

On Wii:
Mario Kart

On Xbox 360:
Saints Row 2

MegaMan Legends 2

I hate, hate, hate, hate the underwater parts of the game. It's sooooo slow, and it makes the controls feel almost sluggish and delayed.

Have there ever been any good underwater sections in any game ever made, though?

As for me, I'm playing FEAR 2. Been aaaages since I played this, but its still good.

Have there ever been any good underwater sections in any game ever made, though?

As for me, I'm playing FEAR 2. Been aaaages since I played this, but its still good.

I've played games that had not only good underwater sections, but they performed better. The framerate dips below 30(due to that water ripple effect, I believe)when you're underwater in MegaMan Legends 2 and makes the game feel sluggish and a chore to play. Game is still great and fun as hell, but I feel that's the only downside with this game, the underwater sections are the worst.

Well, I can't comment on Megaman, because I haven't played it, but off the top of my head, I can't remember a single game where I've enjoyed underwater sections. They always seem terrible, slow, too dark to see properly etc etc. Maybe its just the psychic scars from Zelda's water temple still hurting after all this time...

Seriously though, I *really* hate underwater sections in games. I was playing KOTOR again a few months ago, and was reminded anew of that joyless, tortuous underwater section, with you crawling along at snail's pace in that diving suit... ugh.

I got Rayman Legends again in a possibly vein attempt to get all the trophies. Plus the soundtrack is too amazing to pass up. And it was rather cheap at amazon compared to normal price.

Have there ever been any good underwater sections in any game ever made, though?


Banjo-Tooie's Jolly Roger's Lagoon is a great underwater level... That's the only one I can think of lol.

Playing GTA Online, Drakengard 3, NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda: Wind Waker HD, Disgaea D2 and Disgaea DS

- I can't remember a single game where I've enjoyed underwater sections. They always seem terrible, slow, too dark to see properly etc etc.
I though the Crash series had solid underwater levels.

Not having played either Banjo Tooie or any of the Crash games, I can't really comment. I'm happy to take your words on it though, gents. I'm obviously exaggerating to make my point here - I'm not suggesting that there *literally* aren't any good underwater levels in games, but merely that my experience of them has been overwhelmingly negative.

I remember kind of liking the 'Soda Lake' level on Super Mario World, but that could just be the sense of triumph I felt at finally mastering that 'fly under the exit with enough momentum to reach the secret exit' bit on Cheese Bridge that you have to go through to unlock the Lake level. Plus it has those cool Torpedo enemies, which aren't on any of the other levels.

But generally, I've lost track down the years of how many times my heart has sunk through the floor when I realize I have to do an underwater section. Horrible, imprecise flailing about that vaguely looks like swimming, severely restrcted range of movement, murky levels, slow pace, often having all of your regular attacks or moves deactivated. Gah! May these sections be consigned to gaming hell and burn there forever!

Finished MegMan Legends 2. The last boss was very hard, but it was a close fight.

Currently on The Misdaventures of Trone Bonne.

Been playing some of Lego Star Wars Complete Saga on PS3. This is my third Lego game and I have to admit, they are rather relaxing to play than some of the other games I have in my collection.

Diablo

I'm so glad I found the Magic Rock, Arkaine's Valor, and Blade of the Moon.

Wolfensteinn New Order.

Not having played either Banjo Tooie or any of the Crash games, I can't really comment. I'm happy to take your words on it though, gents. I'm obviously exaggerating to make my point here - I'm not suggesting that there *literally* aren't any good underwater levels in games, but merely that my experience of them has been overwhelmingly negative.

I remember kind of liking the 'Soda Lake' level on Super Mario World, but that could just be the sense of triumph I felt at finally mastering that 'fly under the exit with enough momentum to reach the secret exit' bit on Cheese Bridge that you have to go through to unlock the Lake level. Plus it has those cool Torpedo enemies, which aren't on any of the other levels.

But generally, I've lost track down the years of how many times my heart has sunk through the floor when I realize I have to do an underwater section. Horrible, imprecise flailing about that vaguely looks like swimming, severely restrcted range of movement, murky levels, slow pace, often having all of your regular attacks or moves deactivated. Gah! May these sections be consigned to gaming hell and burn there forever!

Lol. I know exactly what you're talking about. Banjo-Tooie is literally the only game I can think of with a good water level.

I beat Drakengard 3's final boss (had to cheat, FFFFFFFUUUUUUUU) and Wind Waker HD.

I suppose to be fair, underwater sections are no worse than any of the drastic changes in environment or controls that games foist on you. Vehicle sections in games that are primarily on foot for example are also rarely good, because they won't have had the development time assigned to them that the rest of the game had (Half Life 2 for example). Its just a case of the game mostly using a completely different set of rules to those that the underwater levels/sections use. On the one hand they offer some variety, but the other they bring all the woes we've discussed.

But its primarily the awful swimming and flailing about that gets me - particularly when you have to fight enemies and bosses etc, but racing against the clock to find air before you drown is another of my much hated water perils. So long as I'm not directly in the water however, I'm usually okay with it. Say if you're in a sub or something (that ocean level in Star Fox 64 is pretty funky as I recall, but the tank level still beats it IMO!) I just don't like actually having to swim about or walk along the ocean floor etc etc. There's a bit in Bioshock 2 where you have to go walking about on the sea bed, and its predictably awful.

And hey, I really love the idea of 'the fathomless deeps of the sea', the 'wonders and the horrors of the abyssal depths' etc etc. Games like Bioshock and KOTOR have had very effective horror themed ocean levels. That bit with the diving suit sucks in KOTOR, but otherwise I love the whole deep sea terror feel of Manaan. And come on - XCOM: Terror from the Deep? Now *there* was a great underwater game.

I liked Tigershark's underwater...

O, wait, that's right.
The whole game is BASED around underwater.
XD

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

I forgot to mention that I also finished Diablo a few days ago. I'll finally be able to get to Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

I'm trying to get strong enough to beat Baal on Disgaea D2. He has 100 billion HP. T_T

Finished Lego Star Wars Complete Saga and thoroughly enjoyed it. Think I've been missing out with the Lego games as they are fun and relaxing.

Gone back to playing Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn for the time being, while deciding whether to play Tales of Xillia, Army of Two The Devil's Cartel or a playthrough of the Dragon Age series (in preparation for Dragon Age Inquisition later this year...). Just don't know which...

Ah, I did my Dragon Age/Dragon Age 2 playthrough a month or so back - got it done during the lean release schedules! Speaking of release schedules, I really wish Bioware would wise up and change that October release date for Inquisition. October packed to bursting with big name games - the release date for DA:I is right around the time of Alien: Isolation, The Evil Within, Shadows of Mordor, Batman Arkham Knight etc etc. Who wants to be caught up in that scrum?

If I were them, I'd throw everything I had into finishing the polishing, troubleshooting process and get it out earlier (end of August maybe). They'd have the release schedule to themselves, and they'd avoid that end of year melee (which will probably also include Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty etc etc).

If not EA/Bioware, then someone has to see sense - that release schedule is just insane. We get practically nothing of note all year, then everything at once, so we can't possibly afford and find time to play it all. Another great showcase of the razor sharp minds at work in the games industry...

Mario Kart 8. It's enjoyable as of so far.

Wolfenstein: The New Order (Xbone)

Katamari Forever (PS3):
Forgot how much I liked this game.

Tales of Xillia... Pretty good game and after having lost track of time when I started it (spent 4 hours playing it, then realized what the time was lol). Think I might look into some of the other Tales games...

Mario Kart 8. Pretty fun. I've been playing almost nonstop since I got it. I play online a lot if anyone else has it.

Lego games are really fun kids games even for gamers 21+ like myself.

I am currently playing FFX HD for PS3.

Ace Combat: Infinity

About 4 hours in, and I'm really enjoying it. The online co-op missions are intense. And dat soothing Ace Combat 5 menu theme <3....

Took a break from Tales of Xillia to play one of my recent buys - Ghostbusters The Videogame. I truly consider this to be the third in the Ghostbusters franchise. The one liners and banter between Peter and... well... everyone, is classic Bill Murray. Even the late Harold Ramis fires off some quips as well. Had this on my 360 but lost it, so getting it again on the PS3 was kind of a must for me.

E.V.O. - The Search For Eden (SNES)

Well, guess what?
It looks like someone turned the game into a card game a kickstarter.
Evolution Preview - How Many Species Must Die? | Tabletop | The Escapist (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/tabletop/11572-Evolution-Preview-How-Many-Species-Must-Die)


My body, is ready.

Lego IJ

still tryin to platinum Rayman Legends. Approaching 700,000 lums. still a long way to go.

Mass Effect 3, Bioshock Infinite ( in 1991 mode ) and Far Cry Insticts: Predator after I already completed Far cry 2 & 3

Defender

Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn - Playing this off and on, working on leveling my Bard (Currently 44).
Ghostbusters - Having a good chuckle at the ingame banter... as well as a urge to watch the movies and the Real Ghostbusters cartoon series...

A Story About My Uncle:
It's like a first person Spider-Man meets Myst/Riven.

It's...amazing.

Black & White 2

Finished Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria some time ago, it was better than I first thought, although the combat system still annoys the hell out of me.
Played a few shorter games on Steam and lots of The Binding of Isaac with the DLC, only missing Platinum God now.
And I finally went back to "Shin Rorona no Atelier Hajimari no Monogatari: Arland no Renkinjutsushi", 6 months after starting it, and beat it once. Playing overtime now with Meruru and Totori. Can't wait for Atelier Rorona Plus, so I can understand all the new stuff a bit better.

Soul Calibur IV - I'm having a lot of fun playing this game.:)

Zeno Clash 2 - Special Edition

Been hewing my way through my PS3 catalogue at a furious pace, trying to re-earn all the game data and saves etc that I lost when my previous PS3 died. So over the last month or so, I've played:

Dragon Age: Origins.
Dragon Age 2.
LA Noire.
Resistance 3.
Dungeon Siege 3.
Valkyria Chronicles.
FEAR 2.
Resident Evil: Operarion Raccoon City.
Killzone 2.
Killzone 3.
Resident Evil 6.
Spec Ops: The Line.


Made some good progress then, but still a long, long way to go. We're talking 3-4 years of games after all. Portal 2, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls (I could cry that I lost the data for those 2...), the Dead Space games, Final Fantasy 13, Resident Evil 5, Dragon's Dogma, Nier, X-COM... the list goes on and on and on.

But I will not give in! I earned that game data and those trophies, dammit! I *will* have them back!

Started playing FUSE again... helped a friend on XBL finish her game, now it's my turn. It's not a bad game... just that there's a LOT of room for improvement. The initial idea for FUSE probably would've been received a lot better than a generic third person shooter... still, it's not that bad.

@Vrykolas : I've been doing the same as you... except for games which I have on 360, then got the PS3 version of. Using my PS3 a LOT more than 360...

Been hewing my way through my PS3 catalogue at a furious pace, trying to re-earn all the game data and saves etc that I lost when my previous PS3 died. So over the last month or so, I've played:

Dragon Age: Origins.
Dragon Age 2.
LA Noire.
Resistance 3.
Dungeon Siege 3.
Valkyria Chronicles.
FEAR 2.
Resident Evil: Operarion Raccoon City.
Killzone 2.
Killzone 3.
Resident Evil 6.
Spec Ops: The Line.


Made some good progress then, but still a long, long way to go. We're talking 3-4 years of games after all. Portal 2, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls (I could cry that I lost the data for those 2...), the Dead Space games, Final Fantasy 13, Resident Evil 5, Dragon's Dogma, Nier, X-COM... the list goes on and on and on.

But I will not give in! I earned that game data and those trophies, dammit! I *will* have them back!

That's a lot of work. Then again, it is why flash drives are made. So you can get your data on that and just put it on your new system.

You see, when you say something like 'flash drive', it means very little to a technological illiterate like me :D For some reason it made me thnik of old sci-fi shows.

'Activate the Flash Drive!' (cue shot of those people tumbling head over heels from 'The Time Tunnel' etc)

I assume its some sort of data storage... thing. I'm pretty I know what it is, but I have no idea how it works. Unless it can retrieve data from terminally zonked consoles, then the horse has already bolted (and even if it can, I wouldn't have the first clue what to do, and having my tech savvy, PC loving friends sneer at my stone age level of tech knowhow is among my least favourite things to do).

Besides, it *is* a lot of work, but its not really *work* work, is it? Its nice to have an excuse to go back and play these games. And hell, its not like I'm buying loads of new games, more's the pity. I've only bought 1 game this year (3 if you count downloads, but Final Fantasy 10 hardly counts as I already owned it). To be frank, I'm glad to have something to fill my gaming schedule, as I wait to be overwhelmed in October's blitz.

So thanks for the suggesion (truly), but if I was to educate myself in technical matters, I'd use it on more entertaining pursuits than learning about flash drives and the like. Like having a pair of Doctor Octopus mecha limbs grafted onto my body, so I'd be able to play multiple consoles at once - that would make getting through all the games much easier. Or I could form my own multiplayer clan and be all the members myself at the same time... hmm.

Well, part of my mission in life is to try to keep people from bein couch potatoes. I play alot too, but sometimes you just need to have the need to do something other than gaming. Besides, your time could be better spent on family and such.

As far as how to use them, plug the flash drive in a usb slot. Then go to your save data. Press Triangle and you can copy it to the storage unit.

If I'm not mistaken, I've seen that you've gotten Platinum trophies on various JEPGs, which are extremely time intensive! Glass houses and all that :D I jest of course, and you're right that too much time spent in front of the screen is bad. But its unnecessary to tell me this - I've always kept extremely late hours, and require very little sleep. It allows me to get in gaming, whilst still having time for everything else of importance.

As I say, this is a rather exceptional circumstance - its sort of like speed reading a set of books you've already read. I already know most of the secrets and tricks to these games, so playing them now is much faster than it was the first time. For the couch potato thing, hey I'm a writer - its practically my job to lie about for most of the day!

That was back when I was out of work. I've been havin a real job for 7 months now. It's harder for me to platinum games than i usually did due to all the other stuff i'm doin. And the only real games i've platinumed as far as those go are the Disgaea games and Atelier Meruru. Also, I'm online quite a bit, too.

I'm actually just about at my vacation period since business is a lot slower during the summer and I've been cut to only one shift a week.

Hey, we all set our own limits, and we are all responsible for being honest with ourselves on how much we play and how much is too much. As far as I'm concerned, you can Platinum away to your heart's content. People live their own lives - you can't live it for them. I like playing games and I'm not ashamed to say so, but I'm not crazy - I'm in no danger of being found as some kind of dessicated husk in front of my console, having died from playing World of Warcraft (or whatever) for 5 years continuously :D

Look at the games on my list, and you'll see that only a handful require more than 6 hours or so to beat. Action games like FEAR 2, Spec Ops: The Line, Killzone 2, Killzone 3 etc can be (and were) finished in just 2-3 sessions of gaming of around 3 hours each. Its only the bigger RPGs like the Dragon Age games and LA Noire that took more time. I'm right there with you that people need to be responsible with their gaming, but like I say, we all know our own limits. We can only hope that for those who don't, somebody who knows them will step in, but for the most part, I think people can be trusted to know what's right for them.

I live a very uncluttered, low tech life, which frees up a lot of time because I avoid so many of modern life's distractions. I spend hardly any time online, don't own a mobile phone, I don't use social networking (I have never looked at Facebook or Twitter - ever, not even once!), I've never played an MMO etc etc. I'm kind of the exact opposite end of the scale from the guy being dead in front of WoW, I guess. This isn't about justifcation or validation - I play as much as I care to, and I'm satisfied that it isn't too much. My way of life works for me, but would be unthinkable for the next man, and there's nothing wrong with that. It takes all kinds to make a world and all that.

As the classic line goes: 'To Thine Own Self, Be True'.

Truer words were never spoken.

As anyone played Enemy Front?

As anyone played Enemy Front?

its not good at all -.- it feels dated as hell
Wolfenstein the new Order is much better if you haven't played it yet

its not good at all -.- it feels dated as hell
Wolfenstein the new Order is much better if you haven't played it yet
I heard Enemy Front is a bit like Far Cry 3, but with Nazis.

Wolfenstein is 40 GIGABYTES of data.
For a 10 hour game.
It'd take me a freaking week to download it, unless I throttle everything else.

It'd take me a freaking week to download it, unless I throttle everything else.

Then buy the physical edition...

On topic : Playing FUSE. Not a bad game, but still no OVERSTRIKE.

Hey, i'm back to the shrine since last week.

I'm doing my run through the Shin Megami Tensei doing my absence.

Finished P3P first. Great game. Loved the Ending and it's storyline and some of it's social links threads.

Started The Answer from FES. Disgusted on how continued the story (Aigis in the Velvet Room WTF). So I decided to not to play it, even gameplay wise is a disgrace.

Finished Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne with the True Demon Ending. Daisojou is so fucking broken man. But still quite amazing game when you manage to get a hold it's mechanics. And highly satisfying. Neutral and True Demon endings got the cake for me. It's currently my favorite game from the Franchise.

Continued my memory from Persona 4. I was nearly on tears after the Heaven dungeon. Only to be utterly pissed off after the reveal of the real culprit. Such a disgrace. Such a waste of oportunity. Such a waste of storyline, the way it threw itself away. It baffles me. It made me wonder if the Japs really know how to write good villains. So yeah, it's pending to be finished but I don't feel like doing it at all... Probably not going too.

Continuing Digital Devil Saga Avatar Tuner right now, I'm at the final battle, which I'm so underleveled that it's giving me a hard the bitch onmyo harihara. I'm going to beat her though. Probably this weekend.

I have a save from Persona 2 IS, great storyline so far (probably the most hooking of the franchise and it's foreshadowing to be the best too.), the gameplay puts me off hard time. So I'm struggling to going through it. But I want to see right through it.

Persona 1 PSP is also another pending. Again it's gameplay puts me a little bit off. But probably going to do it.


Other than that I finished MGS4 for the first time a few months ago. Loved the fanservice and the Act 4, the final battle as well. I chuckled quite a bit to "it's the NANOMACHINES" plot device throughout the game. Almost in tears in the ending. I hated the Zero twist of the storyline. But then again. I'm probably the only person alive who thinks that MGS3 was the worst and a total disgrace to the series, moreso than 2.



Then again, I can keep myself caged thinking that it's storyline started and finished back in the PS1 and be happy with it. Hail Solid fucking Snake. xD

Hi @Revan & @Vrykolas, it's been a while.

Then buy the physical edition...
On topic : Playing FUSE. Not a bad game, but still no OVERSTRIKE.
I would, for PC, but it's hard as hell to a physical copy here.

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Luftrausers:
I suck at this game.

I heard Enemy Front is a bit like Far Cry 3, but with Nazis.

Wolfenstein is 40 GIGABYTES of data.
For a 10 hour game.
It'd take me a freaking week to download it, unless I throttle everything else.

You can always pause the download and let your system rest. Which is what I would do.

Still tryin to platinum Rayman Legends. Over 800,000 lums now. It's gonna take even longer to get that final level of Awesomeness, though.

Currently Watch Dogs ..though it wasn't as good as I was expecting so I've hardly been playing it at all, probably going to get Murdered Soul Suspect next.

I would, for PC, but it's hard as hell to a physical copy here.

Could always look on eBay or Craigslist etc. Just a suggestion

On Topic: Lego Pirates of the Caribbean... very relaxing.

EDIT (so as NOT to double post) : as of 17/06/2014, still trying to get my damn Allagan Earrings of Aiming for my Bard in Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn... as of the last 26 raids into that particular instance, no damn drop >.<

Also decided to go back and play Mass Effect... not just for trophy hunting on PS3 but also to try and get back in sync to continue my Mass Effect fanfic.

@topopoz : Hey top, been awhile. Where have you been hiding?

Besides my regular activity on Street Fighter and League of Legends, I've recently finished Trine and I'm currently playing Charlie Murder, a fun little side scrolling brawler.

I did recently try Hotline Miami and intend to get that because it is quite fun. I'm also looking to get my hands on a copy of Vampire Night for the ps2, it was something I really loved playing as a kid and my nostalgia demands that I acquire it!

The Movies. It's good!

Trying to finish up Dino Crisis

Edit: Done

Took a break from Shin Rorona no Atelier after failing to get true ending, due to missing a few friendship points with one NPC in the middle of the game. It wasn't required in the original Rorona, so I had no idea it was now.
And what did I play instead? Atelier Rorona Plus, haha. I managed to buy it on Thursday, one day before release, at a local game shop, which was pretty incredible considering the game was unavailable everywhere else. I got my platinum an hour ago, so finishing the Japanese version won't be a problem now that I know what was missing. The game's trophies are still not showing up in online mode even though the release date was the 20th.
I'm probably going to finish off the last stuff in Binding of Isaac when I play something next.

Devil Kings

Battlefield 4, SP campaign and MP.

SP = Just bored atm, and want to just blast things.

MP = Ninja 'nade. 'Nuff said.

Beyond the Sims 3, I'm just getting into Assassin's Creed 3.

PLAYING - 3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3):
I've decided I'm going to BEAT all my games, starting with the digital ones first.
-Getting a Platinum not necessary, but at least getting to the final fight/puzzle/etc.


JUST BEAT - Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time:
Enjoyed it, though the boss fights weren't too hard.
The final boss fight was, kind of a letdown.
Not very hard, not very imaginative, and lacked that 'OMG I WON' feeling.

SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360)... working on the last achievement I need for the entire trilogy : Insanity.

Finished Yakuza 3. I've also been thinking about replaying the Mass Effect trilogy for the third time, but on the hardest difficulty.

Starting on Yakuza 4

I seem to be stuck forever playing Chaos Wars-[PS2]... I'm so close to finishing... but my OCD REQUIRES I get my main team's stats to 999 before taking on the final battles... These Idea Factory games always kill months of my time...

Meanwhile, I just recently finished Zelda: Link's Awakening DX-[GBC] and Panic!-[SCD]. And I'm currently working on Quest 64-[N64].

Taking a walk down memory lane
Dusted down the PS1 and been playing TRUE PINBALL / POPULOUS - THE BEGINNING / KISS PINBALL / DEMOLITION RACER
Gonna be exploring WWF WARZONE / TREASURES OF THE DEEP / POOLSHARK / RAILROAD TYCOON / PITFALL 3D
Then moving on to tne 3DO

On PS3:
Mass Effect (Engineer playthrough as well as assorted trophy hunting)
Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn (Working on leveling my Monk)

On Xbox 360:
Mass Effect 2 (Still on the Insanity playthrough)
Call of Duty Ghosts (Assorted achievement hunting and for S&G in MP)
Warriors Orochi 2 (Assorted achievement hunting)

Odin Sphere was on sale on PSN.

So, I bought it.
:D

Alas not a whole lot. Need more free time!

WinBack: Covert Operations

Duke Nukem Forever - checking to find out if the game is actually fun or indeed crap

Currently I'm playing the Witcher series, already finished 1 and am halfway through 2.

Platinumed Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel yesterday for my 17th platinum. Been alternating between Disgaea D2 and Rayman Legends.

Finishing up XCOM: Enemy Within

In Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn, I managed to get my Grand Company rank to Second Serpent Lieutenant in the Order of the Twin Adder and bought my Private Room and some furnishings in my Free Company's House. Now working on the third (and final) hunting log for the Twin Adder's, get my last two 'Minions' from the Twin Adder and then transfer over to the Immortal Flames Grand Company.

I might start GTAV again later...

I finished the last stuff for my platinum on Shin Rorona no Atelier, and yesterday the trophies for Atelier Rorona Plus finally showed up on PSN, only 25 days after release.
I bought three old Mega Drive games during the European PSN sale and finished them, Streets of Rage 2, The Revenge of Shinobi and Golden Axe. Good times.
This damn summer is killing me, and my computer. It's so hot indoors that I can't play any game until late at night. I tried to play Isaac, but after 15min my computer let out a warning sound which indicates that the CPU is at 70�C. >_>

Divinity Original Sin

Grand Theft Auto V. Rather enjoying it this time... and Trevor is indeed my favorite character of the three. I think it's because he is the embodiment of GTA. He is the first actual character in all the GTA games that actually represents us when we stop playing the game and just mess around and act like a mad man. He is the first playable character that actually has context to that madness.

Phantasy Star Universe.

Getting as many collectables as possible in Batman: Arkham City.

Platinumed Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel yesterday for my 17th platinum. Been alternating between Disgaea D2 and Rayman Legends.

How good is Ar Tonelico Qoga? I've played through the first game and thought it was kinda ridiculous, so I haven't tried that one yet.
Also, "I'm so happy, dood!"

I'm hopping between Final Hallway XIII, GTA Online, Rock Band 3, Planet Puzzle League and Shining Force II.

It was decent. a good portion of skipping mostly during battles, but the music, especially the vast majority of the Hymns, were absolutely amazing. The game itself was very fun for me. And thanks, dood.

Just finished replaying and beating Crash Twinsanity. It's amusing how the game ends.

Just finished Catherine. That game is a lot easier than you think its going to be - I'm no master of puzzle games by any stretch of the imagination, but I had little difficulty getting through it. Not that I necessarily would *want* it to be harder, but it did surprise me. Well, suprised me again I should say (I have finished it before, but that was around the time it came out).

Decent game for what it is, enjoyable story, and the sections where you hang out in the bar with Vincent's layabout friends are great fun. Much preferred the ending I got this time, to the one I got the first time round (I got the True Freedom ending, where Vincent decides not to get married, stay single and just enjoy his life by going on a tourism trip - in space!)

Have to say though - playing a puzzle game that requires quick and 3 dimensional thinking in the middle of a crippling heatwave = absence of joy. I was so hot at times that I could barely stay conscious, let alone plan my moves out!

Getting the last of the collectables in Arkham City :p

Edit: Done with the collectables. I'll get started on Harley Quinn's Revenge sometime later.

It's been a long time since I posted my beaten games:

Wipeout HD Fury DLC 100% (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1TfAcNMtbU&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
#68 Wipeout HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpPeMxkeOcI&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q) //I got the "7 Chaos Emeralds" at the end of this video ;D
MW3 Iron Clad & Kill Switch DLC 100% (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynj4JLn76Cw&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
#69 G-Force (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEalE4LtRjE&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
#70 NCIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS5GKly2KUg&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q) //In March alone I earnt 10 platinum trophies.
Bomberman Ultra 100% (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=836aZ3hLpTY&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
#71 Ashes Cricket 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrSLZ3txQI&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
#72 International Cricket 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YslBvxV6zqw&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
BF3 Back To Karkand 100% (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OoBmw-tLmU&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
BF3 Close Quarters 100% (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD2hIVf6nUU&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
BF3 Armoured Kill 100% (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXBjYrsHMAE&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
BF3 Aftermath 100% (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuQLQ76Ujzg&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
BF3 End Game 100% (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMr2yd9h03A&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
#73 Resistance: Burning Skies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNpPVdBrCGs&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)

Also, I somehow, "earnt" MW2 platinum. Basically I did it all legit before, except a couple of spec ops missions on veteran, I did those on veteran now because I try to be an honest person and it's been hitting my conscience, but actually I was looking forward to it because I never finished them on vet and it sounded like a fun and thrilling experience.... that only lasted about 45 minutes :P Yup, I got them done THAT quick, when I struggled on myriad tries before.... basically I just speedran:
Snatch & Grab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp2EtkH_VsQ&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)
Wetwork (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ohj1Azz5I0&list=UUURUjsojQfX0OUC19WgOM-Q)


The main reason why 2014 been such a sucky year for me is due to getting back into trophies addiction at this year's start, it has always felt against my character and like I've lost my soul to it and dishonoured myself and wasted time and money *sigh* Which means I neglected my true self this year so no language-learning or Sonic.
There was also another reason but that's off-topic and was more minor and long-term-intermittently-ongoing and is gone now thankfully. And another minor reason was getting scammed at this year's start.

Dark Souls II

Destiny Beta. Seems interesting enough so far...

Just completed pkmn white 2, almost finish with Super Mario 3d world.

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The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
Phantasy Star Universe
Spyro the Dragon
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
Phantasy Star Portable 2

UPDATE
Got bored with getting nowhere on THEME HOSPITAL so the PS1 is back on the shelf
Now the DREAMCAST has been dusted down and today gave IRON ACES a spin followed by a frustrating 30 mins of JEDI POWER BATTLES [ don't laugh i'm a SW geek ] [ Even EPISODE 1 on the PS1 was better than THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Tomorrow i'll take a look at VIRTUA TENNIS 2 [ I know I know WIMBLEDON is OVER lol ] & JET SET RADIO [ never get anywhere with it ...I know ...useless gamer lol ]
I'll have you know i have completed SOME games :autobots:

Just fully beat New Super Mario Bros. for the very first time. Lots of effort were put into this game.

Making some custom race tracks in GTA Online to... torment my friends... bwa ha ha ha

Still playing D:OS.

I think I glitched the game somehow, because I went from level 7 to level 10 way too fast for this game.
O_o

It was decent. a good portion of skipping mostly during battles, but the music, especially the vast majority of the Hymns, were absolutely amazing. The game itself was very fun for me. And thanks, dood.

What do you mean by skipping? I'm more concerned with the plot and other things. I can tolerate the fan service if the story is good enough. Without a decent story, characters or setting, I'm finding it hard to suffer through most JRPG's these days.

Speaking of which, I finally completed the story of Final Hallway XIII. I think the game gets more hate than it deserves. I started out disliking the game because the characters got on my nerves, but they grew on me the further I progressed.



Making some custom race tracks in GTA Online to... torment my friends... bwa ha ha ha
I tried doing this too. I made a race with the vehicles locked to Faggio scooters. I wanted to name it "Flying Faggios" but the game wouldn't let me. :(

What do you mean by skipping? I'm more concerned with the plot and other things. I can tolerate the fan service if the story is good enough. Without a decent story, characters or setting, I'm finding it hard to suffer through most JRPG's these days.

I liked the story. There's a good portion of different endings. I find it hard to figure out a favorite ending. As for the skipping, you'll have to see for yourself. The entire game I never had the game once crash on me even with the occasional skipping. It was worse for Disgaea D2.

Oh, do you mean frame-skipping/ frame rate issues? I had the same issue with Disgaea D2. For me, was displayed in 1080p (it looked up-scaled though), which is higher than the average PS3 game. That's might be why it had those issues.
But oh god, the worst frame rates I've ever experienced were Skyrim and Drakengard 3 on the PS3. Drakengard 3 was tolerable, but Skyrim was just out-right terrible in some areas.

Anyway, maybe I'll give Ar Tonelico 3 a try if I can find it at a good price.
Right now, I'm trying to finish Disgaea on the DS before I do a story reset on DD2. I'm also in the middle of Lost Kingdoms, Shining Force II and The Guided Fate Paradox.

August 22nd... Tales of Xillia 2... games drought finally, *finally* coming to an end... have to hold o... (collapses in a shrivlled heap).

Finished the first Tales of Xillia (again) in preparation. One of the better Tales games IMO, but obviously rushed with all the recycled box canyon levels. Not sure I would have been falling over myself for a sequel, but in a year when I've reached July and have still only bought 2 games... Let's just say I'm willing to give most anything a fair hearing at this point!

Been alternating between Rayman Legends, Chocobo Racing and Disgaea D2 as of late. Prob gonna start tryin to go for my 18th plat tomorrow for my b-day.

I tried doing this too. I made a race with the vehicles locked to Faggio scooters. I wanted to name it "Flying Faggios" but the game wouldn't let me. :(

Let's just say... they don't like the races I've made as I've used a lot of 'props' as obstacles along the way lol. Might try my hand at making a sea race or air race next...


August 22nd... Tales of Xillia 2... games drought finally, *finally* coming to an end... have to hold o... (collapses in a shrivlled heap).

Finished the first Tales of Xillia (again) in preparation. One of the better Tales games IMO, but obviously rushed with all the recycled box canyon levels. Not sure I would have been falling over myself for a sequel, but in a year when I've reached July and have still only bought 2 games... Let's just say I'm willing to give most anything a fair hearing at this point!

I've finished the first Tales of Xillia, Day One Edition, not that long ago. First Tales game I actually finished and I admit, I did enjoy it. Got the second on preorder now and considering looking into other Tales games.

On Topic: Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Just started it and seems ok so far...

Crash of the Titans
Rocket Power: Beach Bandits
Phantasy Star Universe
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
Phantasy Star Portable 2

Yeah, Xillia was alright, but it did suffer from a few problems endemic to the Tales series (combat is fun but pretty mindless button mashing, the game lacks consistent villains and it feels like there is a revolving door of opponents who have their 15 minutes of fame then die, before the game seemingly randomly settles on a final opponent - that in particular is a staple of the Tales series IMO).

Like I said, I thought it was one of the best of the series (just behind Vesperia for me). I would just for once like some more consistency in the villains. Establish some villains and stick with them and develop them. The Tales series rarely offers this, constantly pulling out new factions and masterminds, only to quickly dispatch them and move onto someone else new. It keeps things moving and it keeps you on your toes, but there's something to said for having a stable set of villains who get a proper amount of time to flourish and really demonstrate why they are so dastardly that you must beat them. In Dragon Age Origins (for example) you knew the Darkspawn and Archdemon were your enemies, and that didn't change. They didn't get replaced with new enemies halfway through, or you didn't have sections where you were friends with them now (well, unless you count Awakening I guess...) before the game pulls a last minute 'Oh wait... actually we *will* have you fight them after all... probably'.

This is something that is less noticeable if you haven't played multiple Tales games, I guess. Part of me thinks 'Well, its always this way so that's how the Tales guys like to make their games'. And Vesperia arguably does it even more than this game, and that's my favourite Tales game! I'm just of the mind that a really satisfying story, a really epic adventure should set up its villains early and develop them over the course of the game, so when you finally do take them out, it feels appropriately important. This revolving door 'Big Bad of the Week' approach, doesn't do it for me. Nachtigal - done, Gilland - done, Exodus - done, Chimeriad - done, Maxwell - done. And plots like the Otherworld reactor plan and pretty much everything to do with Elympios just seeming to be abandoned, despite its huge potential.

But hey, I guess that's what the sequel is for, hey? It was a good game - I just don't think it was the great game that it could have been (and it wasn't far off IMO).

Been playing a variety of games, BF 4, some PAYDAY 2, a weird free game on steam called "Only If", Dark Souls 2, and Ace Combat Infinity(F-14's mah bebeh :3 ).

Currently playing Record of Agarest War. I have to say, this is the first localized JRPG I've played that is very...very Japanese. :P

Been playing a variety of games, BF 4, some PAYDAY 2, a weird free game on steam called "Only If", Dark Souls 2, and Ace Combat Infinity(F-14's mah bebeh :3 ).

Currently playing Record of Agarest War. I have to say, this is the first localized JRPG I've played that is very...very Japanese. :P

I remember playin Agarest War Zero. Nuthin but Japanese voices. Gameplay wasn't that grand, though.

Etrian Odyssey III, love this series!

Shovel Knight. the first new game I've had to play in ages, I'm stuck on and enamored with it. have played through it 2 times, working on achievements just for the heck of it now.

I see the Resident Evil Gamecube remake is being re-released on all the current consoles. Typical - yet another game that I slaved away on back in the day, completing on its hardest settings (Real Survivor, Invisible enemy mode etc etc) for nothing but sheer love of the game. And now they'll release them on consoles that will give achievements for those things, tempting me to torture myself all over again. First it was Halo: Combat Evolved Legendary playthrough on the original Xbox, now this... All that time and effort.

It feels like... like premature ejaculation. Er, but with games... oh, but not *those* type of games! Ahem...

Anyway, it could just be the games drought delirium, but I probably will buy it again - even though I still own it. Its one of my favourite ever games, so I guess the excuse to play it again and earn some trophies is worth it. And there's always the faint hope that if it makes enough money, Capcom will have the wacky notion of making a new Resident Evil game that is actually a survival horror. Then again, who knows what goes through their minds - for all we know they'll make the next one into a racing game, or a rhythm action game. I've given up trying to guess their logic long ago.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 for PC.

Looking into mods, but nothing I've found impresses me much.

I am currently starting on Bravely default! :)

(looks at name)

You don't say? :D

yes lol! i heard so much about the game that I bought it ..have you played it yet?

No, I haven't. People say nice things about it, so I've been mulling it over. The only things that have stopped me are some troubling stories of a very repetitive and badly thought out final Act, and the fact that the art style really isn't my thing (I'm sure I'd get over it if I started playing though).

I guess the biggest problem is that the reason everyone seems to love it, is because its apparently very old school and feels like an old Square game. But though I did like older JRPGs, I don't really class myself as a fan of the really old style of JRPGs. (Final Fantasy 7, 8 etc aside, I'm more of a PS2 era JRPG fan, than the old Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger style - great games to be sure, but never really as interesting to me personally as later games).

So... I don't know - it is one of the games I've been looking at. Frankly I'm so starved for games, that I'm willing to give anything a shot at this point! I assume that you recommend it, given the 'I liked it so much, I put my *name* on it!' :D

I've barely started myself, but I do like it.

Just beat Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. Not fully, yet, though.

Finished the GDI campaign on Tiberian Sun a couple of days ago. The last mission was pretty hard, but after looking up how someone started out, I managed to finish it(I placed my base where the small NOD base was originally at >_< ). I got started on NOD on the first mission.

Currently, Ace Combat: Infinity, and I'll get back to finishing Arcade Mode on Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

Ah, Command and Conquer... The original game is another of my all time favorites, from the real golden age of PC gaming. I used to listen to the soundtrack for that game all the time.

'We are going to have to act, in we want to live in a different world'.

Awesome :D

In the middle of Tales of Graces ƒ. I'm at Kurt's boss battle right now. Giving the game a rest because he completely destroyed me. >.< I'm not really a huge Tales vet, but I'm trying to beat the game on moderate difficulty instead of the default. I'm making progress I guess, it's just that there are a lot of snags along the way, such as this ridiculous difficulty spike/boss battle. That's one thing I really don't like about this game. The boss prior to this one was pathetically easy for some reason, and I didn't grind before it or anything. For this one, I'll certainly have to...

If it helps, Kurt gave me some trouble too. I didn't die outright, but he gave me a real scare, especially because *nothing* was giving my guys trouble by that time.

I learned a long time ago that you should grind, grind, grind in Tales games, as much and as often as you can in the early stages. The games always have a few outrageous difficulty spikes, so it pays to get your party well ahead of the curve. Level up steadily, never ever refuse a fight, and bide your time until you find a fairly challenging dungeon, then go out and mine it for EXP for as long as you can possibly stand to do it. A bit of pain and effort grinding for levels in the right areas, pays huge rewards down the line in those games (because it also gives you lots of loot, cash etc to keep up on weapons and other gear).

Kurt and the final boss were the only ones in the main game who gave me a scare. Basically, you've nothing to be ashamed about, because he is definitely one of the toughest people in the game. He isn't indicative of the game getting harder - he's just unusually tough.

Been playin Mario Golf: World Tour. Compared to a Hot Shots Golf game, it's good so far.

If it helps, Kurt gave me some trouble too. I didn't die outright, but he gave me a real scare, especially because *nothing* was giving my guys trouble by that time.

I learned a long time ago that you should grind, grind, grind in Tales games, as much and as often as you can in the early stages. The games always have a few outrageous difficulty spikes, so it pays to get your party well ahead of the curve. Level up steadily, never ever refuse a fight, and bide your time until you find a fairly challenging dungeon, then go out and mine it for EXP for as long as you can possibly stand to do it. A bit of pain and effort grinding for levels in the right areas, pays huge rewards down the line in those games (because it also gives you lots of loot, cash etc to keep up on weapons and other gear).

Kurt and the final boss were the only ones in the main game who gave me a scare. Basically, you've nothing to be ashamed about, because he is definitely one of the toughest people in the game. He isn't indicative of the game getting harder - he's just unusually tough.

Yeah, I'm learning that, lol. However, no matter what game I'm playing, I try to avoid grinding wherever possible, just to keep the gameplay interesting. I hate getting to bosses only to find that I wipe the floor with them because my stats are higher than normal. It makes the game boring. On the other hand, if there's required grinding, that's a design flaw, in my opinion. Can't say it in this case though, since it was my own damn fault for choosing moderate difficulty. Lol...

Xenoblade Chronicles really pushed my limit in this regard too. If the plot wasn't as interesting as it was, I probably would have never finished it.

Right now, I'm also trying to unlock all the endings on Disgaea D2. This game may very well be my first platinum trophy...

Two Worlds

Trying to get the discover all locations achievement. Soooo many locations, uuuuugh.

Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn on PS4
Grand Theft Auto V on Xbox 360
Mario Kart 8 on Wii U

Well, I agree that JRPGs are at their best when the combat is challenging enough that you don't just steamroller the enemies. The problem is knowing what level you should be at to achieve that. If you can keep yourself in that sweet spot of being not too weak and not too powerful, then you get the chance to fully explore a game's items, skills, formations, whatever to pull off wins that show you understand the technical aspects of the game. But difficulty spikes ruin that, coming out of nowhere to give battles where their attacks are just so powerful that you can barely survive at all, when the surrounding battles haven't been anywhere near as hard.

I still remember playing Star Ocean: Til the End of Time. Gently progressing with no real problems, enjoying the story and exploration, not grinding excessively. And I was happy as a clam - until I got to the Urssa Lava Caves. The whole dungeon was a difficulty spike in its own right, but just to get in there, you had to beat this utter bastard of a boss called Robin Wind. The little sod was so much harder than anything I'd faced to that point, and it was a rude awakening to be sure. Plus as anyone who has played SMT: Nocturne will tell you, the battle against Matador is truly infamous.

So over the years, I've learned that its best to just bury my feelings and take the EXP when i can get it. Because meeting a tough boss, and realising that you *must* do some grinding is a real pain. Doing grinding at you own pace during the story, before you feel you must do it, makes the pill a little easier to swallow IMO.

Yeah, I'm learning that, lol. However, no matter what game I'm playing, I try to avoid grinding wherever possible, just to keep the gameplay interesting. I hate getting to bosses only to find that I wipe the floor with them because my stats are higher than normal. It makes the game boring. On the other hand, if there's required grinding, that's a design flaw, in my opinion. Can't say it in this case though, since it was my own damn fault for choosing moderate difficulty. Lol...

Xenoblade Chronicles really pushed my limit in this regard too. If the plot wasn't as interesting as it was, I probably would have never finished it.

Right now, I'm also trying to unlock all the endings on Disgaea D2. This game may very well be my first platinum trophy...

There's no trophy for endings in D2, dood.

manhun on xbox. time to finish the game

Well, I agree that JRPGs are at their best when the combat is challenging enough that you don't just steamroller the enemies. The problem is knowing what level you should be at to achieve that. If you can keep yourself in that sweet spot of being not too weak and not too powerful, then you get the chance to fully explore a game's items, skills, formations, whatever to pull off wins that show you understand the technical aspects of the game. But difficulty spikes ruin that, coming out of nowhere to give battles where their attacks are just so powerful that you can barely survive at all, when the surrounding battles haven't been anywhere near as hard.

I still remember playing Star Ocean: Til the End of Time. Gently progressing with no real problems, enjoying the story and exploration, not grinding excessively. And I was happy as a clam - until I got to the Urssa Lava Caves. The whole dungeon was a difficulty spike in its own right, but just to get in there, you had to beat this utter bastard of a boss called Robin Wind. The little sod was so much harder than anything I'd faced to that point, and it was a rude awakening to be sure. Plus as anyone who has played SMT: Nocturne will tell you, the battle against Matador is truly infamous.

So over the years, I've learned that its best to just bury my feelings and take the EXP when i can get it. Because meeting a tough boss, and realising that you *must* do some grinding is a real pain. Doing grinding at you own pace during the story, before you feel you must do it, makes the pill a little easier to swallow IMO.

Oh god, I got destroyed on that Star Ocean game immediately after leaving the first planet and watching the extremely long cutscene. I had no idea what I'd done wrong since I beat the boss prior with no problems. Haven't picked it up since. Lol...


There's no trophy for endings in D2, dood.

I know. I just want to see them all lol. However, there are some special skills that I missed at certain points... I should probably open up a guide to help me find them all. Dood. :P

Only 4 enemies have missable skills: that male angel who u fight as a boss at the end of episode 7, Xenolith, his 2nd form and Darkdeath Evilman.

Finally got all of the achievements for Two Worlds last night. That discover all locations achievement is tedious.

Deadlight

Star Ocean TTEOT is a great game, but its no easy ride, that's for sure. If you get the guide and work out how to make the most of the item crafting, then you can break the game pretty early on. Without that though, the game remains fairly challenging throughout. Worth another look though, I'd say - one of the best JRPGs I've played IMO.

I will have to yive it a second go then. One of these days :P


Only 4 enemies have missable skills: that male angel who u fight as a boss at the end of episode 7, Xenolith, his 2nd form and Darkdeath Evilman.

Ah. Thanks for that.

I just played Mario Kart 8 online for the first time. I never got last, so I guess I did okay. Lol. The only track I got first on was Toad's Turnpike.

Finished Deadlight yesterday. I'm currently on The Wolf Among Us: Episode 4

Mario Kart 8

Finished The Wolf Among Us, currently on Naughty Bear.

I feel bad when I hear these teddy bears scream in terror, but at the same time, I love hearing their high, squeaky voices screaming in terror :p

Star Wars - Empire At War - Gold Edition:
Finally got it to work.

Not on my XP machine, but on my freaking Win8 laptop.
Weird.

Resident Evil 4 HD

Man, everything looks amazingly sharp. I've been so used to the constant widescreen look of it, and the blurry visuals(not blurry as in I couldn't see anything, but it was noticeably blurry)of the original Gamecube version.

Edit: Finished it today. Currently playing it again on Professional mode. I'm surprised I'm doing rather well, despite a few deaths.

Edit 2: Finished Professional mode last night. So much for doing well, I died more times on Professional than on Normal, xP. Mike was a dick on Professional mode, though. Thanks for the nonexistent backup, Mike!

Doing the extra content right now.

I'm still working my way through the Kirby series. I've finished all the main stuff, but now I'm trying to get through the side games like Kirby's Dream Course, Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble, etc. The latter is especially hard because I have to play it on my old GBC and having no back-lit screen makes it more difficult than it needs to be.

Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed on Wii U. I have a weakness for Kart racing games, and this is a pretty good one.

Persona 3:FES (PSN)

Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed on Wii U. I have a weakness for Kart racing games, and this is a pretty good one.

I too played that recently, and I have to say, it's probably the best racing game I've ever played, pretty neck-and-neck with Mario Kart Double Dash for me. It would be better than MKDD by a looong shot if not for that annoying friggen announcer. "BLOWFISH! BLOWFISH! BLOWFISH!" What's worse is that you can't turn him off without turning off character voices! Stupid!

Anyway, right now, I'm giving Tales of Graces a break because it's really aggravating, tedious and the story is just getting worse the farther I progress. I had to play through Journey to ease my rage, and it really worked! Journey was amazing! But too short...

I started playing Kingdoms of Amalur after that, and I'm HOOKED. I've logged in several 6-16 hour sessions already, and I only started it on like Friday. However, it's showing its tedium after 40 hours already. A lot of the game and literally all of the characters are pretty forgettable unfortunately(except maybe Alyn Shir. You know why... Just sayin'), but the battle at Mel Senshir was pretty sweet.

Graces has IMO the worst story of any of the Tales games I've played. The combat is probably the best of the series though, so it does have that going for it at least. But other than that, the story sucks and the character's are mostly pretty weak (compared to how good characters in this series often are). I really loved Pascal, and Hubert (is that his name - can't remember) has some hilarious gags that poke fun at his super serious nature (such as him striking a victory pose, twirling his weapon extravagantly and heroically bellowing 'Every last Gald we earn goes straight into the equipment budget!' Always make me laugh.

But yeah, not one my favorites. Still, Xillia-2 is out tomorrow, so I'll take a look at that. I also bought Dark Souls 2 earlier in the week, but I haven't played it yet. I though about playing all the Souls games back to back (Demon's Souls first, then both Dark Souls games).

On reflection though... I don't think so! :D

Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror: Remastered.

I have to be honest, I'm not all that fond of the Tales' series combat systems. Combat is not really something that drives me through any RPG. While I can see Graces' merits in that regard, I just don't like it enough to have to do it hundreds upon hundreds of times just to see the final moments of the game. I had the same problem with Abyss and Xillia too - halfway through the game, I'm burnt out, and I haven't beaten Symphonia for the same reason. Even with other games like FFXII, FFXIII, Xenoblade Chronicles, Ni No Kuni (which I haven't even gotten that far yet), The Last Story, Kingdom Hearts II, and I'm even now starting to feel that way with Kingdoms of Amalur, repetitive battling just drags me down. One of my favorite RPG's, Golden Sun (and the second one especially), may have annoying random battles, but grinding is completely unnecessary because of how they balanced the whole game, and most of the challenge actually came rrom creative puzzle-solving. I guess I wish that there were more RPG's and adventure games that didn't require so much time battling and had more than that to offer.

Edit: Finally made it to Alabastra on Kingdoms of Amalur. I kinda rushed to the end once I got there, so I just finished the main quest line.
What to play next...

I'm so close to finally platinuming Rayman Legends. One less troublesome game to worry about.

I'm so close to finally platinuming Rayman Legends. One less troublesome game to worry about.
I don't think I've ever, on purpose, gotten a platinum on any game.
I mean, I've come damn close, but not because I was 'trophy hunting' or whatever it's called.
But because I ENJOYED the game so much I just kind of DID...everything.




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Klonoa 2 (PS2)

That's exactly my feeling on combat in RPGs of all kinds - my comment on Graces was simply that out of the various Tales' battle systems, it has the best one. There are very few RPGs that I would play for the gameplay - the story and characters are what matter.

And on the subject of Platinum trophies, I must say that I have very few of them. I don't mind a bit of trophy hunting on games I really like. And I have deliberately sought out the Platinum on a few, but generally the amount of work involved makes it seem an extremely thankless task. Particularly on RPGs, where some of them will be 'Collect *every* item, kill *every* enemy, open absolutely *every* chest, reach level 99,999 with all your character etc etc.

I'm a patient man, but there are limits! :D

Finished Broken Sword 2 around the afternoon. I think I'm going to get back to Tiberian Sun tomorrow.

Finally got my platinum on Rayman Legends. took a good 3 months to get 1 trophy. Dunno if I want to go through such madness again, but the game had awesome music, so can't really complain too much.

As for what I'm playin now, nuthin out of the ordinary till some games I'll want to get later this year come up.

Skyrim Legendary edition - �6 on Steam. Well, that's my reward for waiting 3 years for an epic game!

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Also Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath (honestly pronounced "wr-o/au-th) of Cortex and Loz WW (Non-HD for now)

So I did in fact decide to go and replay Demon's Souls, with a view to playing all 3 games back to back. I steeled myself for battle, then got stuck into Demon's Souls. But then I made a tragic mistake - I picked a Mage character.

See. I've only played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls once each. I completed them both and loved them both, but my characters in the games were essentially identical. I took a pretty standard 'Knight with Sword and Shield' and stuck with it throughout both games. No magic (a few miracles for stat buffs in Demon's Souls, but I never used them), no bows - just Sword and Board. So this time, I thought I should try something else, mix it up a bit. My first thought was to make a hulking Greatsword wielding bezerker of a man (and oh how I wish I'd done that now). But I decided I needed a clean break - lightly armored (if indeed I had any at all), focus on mobility and ranged attacks. So that left me looking at some kind of ranger or sorceror. Being a bit of a closet caster, I decided to give the Mage a go.

But man... what a blunder! I still love this game, the atmosphere is so great and menacing, and for a while I was feeling extra vulnerable due to not having my customary layers of heavy armor and oceans of hit points. But then I realized that the spells I had were absolutely incredible - long range, lock on ability so you hardly ever miss, high damage (for the time of game). I found I was breezing effortlessly through the game, and its only continued in that vein. I don't have to bother learning enemy attack patterns, find windows of opportunity, learn weapon timing etc - just point and blast. Its the most boring thing I've ever played in my life!

And so, I've been stuck in this rut of 'Do I really want to go back and change it, now I'm 20+ hours in?' against the other argument of 'This is less fun than sticking your head in a bucket of acid'. I think I'm going to have to knock this one on the head, and start again with my Greatsword idea. I can't believe that I waited this long to get back into Demon's Souls - a game I absolutely love to pieces, and is one of my favorite games of the last gen - and I've messed it up so disastrously that I can't stand to even look at it, let alone play it.

2014 in video gaming - the year when the fun never started.

Astebreed:
A surprisingly good shoot-em-up for the PC, with a fairly odd story...even for an 'anime type' game.

Beyond Space:
First person shooter in space, think Wing Commander but not as deep, for PC/phone.
It's not the hardest game out there, but it's pretty enough and fun.

Star Wars Empire At War - Forces of Corruption:
I was only able to get this game working properly on my new Win8.1 PC, despite having a WinXP PC that was textbook level for its hardware/software needs. Anyways.
Still, after half a decade or whatever, it's a pretty fun game.
The ground stuff isn't as fun as the space stuff, but both are fun enough that I'm actually going though EACH map to beat.
-Warning: The AI cheats, I don't know how, but the AI cheats.

A Story About My Uncle:
It's like the world of Myst went underground, with the game play of a first person Spider-Man, but based on puzzles not combat.
It's...it's just AMAZING.
Worth far more than what I paid for it.

A Walk In The Dark:
You play as a cat trying to save its owner...yeah, it's one of THOSE games.
It's got that 'dark and foreboding' feel of Limbo, but not nearly as hard which is a good thing.

Waaaay too much Mario Kart 8 today.
Randomly decided to make my Mii look extremely creepy afterwards.

Been playing some Metal Gear Online on the SaveMGO private server.

Finished the Tiberiaun Sun: Firestorm GDI campagin. Cabal is a BITCH to fight on the last mission. Artillery up the ass, cluster missile launches, Subterranean APC invasions, Banshee bombing runs, Tick Tank raids...geez louise. :S I guess I can't handle so many things going on at once in strategy games. I had to look up i Cabal i's strategy on YouTube, and it was a cheap strategy, but it got the job done.

Currently on NOD's Firestorm campaign.

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits

Finished NOD's Firestorm campaign last night.

Currently trying to finish up Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage

Nuthin like goin old school. Playin the original Spyro the Dragon on my PS3. I can put up with the lagging, but still many childhood moments.

Xbox 360
Second playthrough of GTAV and occasional ventures into GTA Online.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas

PlayStation 4
Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn - working on my first Atma weapon.
Lego Marvel Super Heroes.

Finishing up The Walking Dead: Season 2

Dark Souls series (first one I'm going for Platinum, second one maybe later but been playing a lot lately, already beaten the DLCs, just searching every nook and cranny for items and secrets)
Occasional bullet hell (especially espgaLuda II and trying to get a grip of Dodonpachi's Ressurection scoring system)

Finished The Walking Dead: Season 2. Telltale just punches you in the gut with these tearjerking moments. :c

Currently on Halo 4, trying to finish up the Spartan Ops campaign.

Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge

&
MvC3
-Trying to get 100 uses for all the characters.
>>

Theme Hospital. Nostalgia triiiip~

Warrior's Orochi 3 Ultimate on PS4

Danganronpa 2 - and its real good!

Started Ys: Ark of Napishtim on PS2 just now. Horrible voice acting lol...

My Souls series adventures continue, and I'm on Dark Souls now (I did in fact persevere with my Demon's Souls, as I'd spent much of last week arguing that people should try and finish games more often, so it felt a bit hypocritical to give in myself on the very next game I played!) Anyway, it was ridiculously easy all the way through because magic is so broken in Demon's Souls. False King Allant still gave me a bit of a beatdown, but otherwise I rolled the game's bosses with no problems. Firestorm was killing most of them in 1 or 2 castings!

Making steady progress through Dark Souls as a light armor sword and shield + Longbow jobber. Its quite fun, and I'm enjoying being a melee fighter again. Still prefer heavy armor characters with spears and halberds, but this'll do. First time I played the game, I had such a hard time with the Bell Gargoyles, but I rolled them first try this time out (with the aid of Sun Bro Solaire). Mostly, the going's been pretty easy, but Chaos Witch Quelaag kicked my ass a few times. Managed to summon a phantom called Maneater Mildred (what a name!) to help me out, and finally nailed her with my trust longbow.

So yeah, good tense times being had over here.

Gone back to replay Final Fantasy XII (12)

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Those Rachni and the Reapers are so scary :(

Some more Rock Band 3. Beat 'On the Backs of Angels' by Dream Theater and 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' by Iron Maiden on expert drums. They were really hard, and they were 8 and 10 minutes long >.<

Still playing Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate. This is the BEST of the Warriors Orochi series hands down.

Heavy Fire: Afghanistan(PC)

Edit: Command & Conquer: Red Alert(PC)

Finished Danganronpa 2. Great game, better cast of characters this time and some good cases, although it was usually obvious what had happened and who did it. The overall story wasn't as good though, feeling like more of a side story that barely advanced the overarching story of the Danganronpa setting at all.

So it was a good time, basically. Funny, intense, moving and really pretty dark at times (some of the things that get discussed in the final chapter were extremely unsettling). Overall, I thought it was better than the first game, but I still think they have a better game in them. Nevertheless, this is probably my Game of the Year so far (but it has been a very slow year, so take that however you will...)

Finished Danganronpa 2. Great game, better cast of characters this time and some good cases, although it was usually obvious what had happened and who did it. The overall story wasn't as good though, feeling like more of a side story that barely advanced the overarching story of the Danganronpa setting at all.

So it was a good time, basically. Funny, intense, moving and really pretty dark at times (some of the things that get discussed in the final chapter were extremely unsettling). Overall, I thought it was better than the first game, but I still think they have a better game in them. Nevertheless, this is probably my Game of the Year so far (but it has been a very slow year, so take that however you will...)

Still got a few months left with big releases, so who knows? Got my game and soundtrack of the year pretty much locked in, but the next few months can change that.

On topic, still tryin to get somewhere in Bravely Default.

My Souls series adventures continue, and I'm on Dark Souls now (I did in fact persevere with my Demon's Souls, as I'd spent much of last week arguing that people should try and finish games more often, so it felt a bit hypocritical to give in myself on the very next game I played!) Anyway, it was ridiculously easy all the way through because magic is so broken in Demon's Souls. False King Allant still gave me a bit of a beatdown, but otherwise I rolled the game's bosses with no problems. Firestorm was killing most of them in 1 or 2 castings!

Making steady progress through Dark Souls as a light armor sword and shield + Longbow jobber. Its quite fun, and I'm enjoying being a melee fighter again. Still prefer heavy armor characters with spears and halberds, but this'll do. First time I played the game, I had such a hard time with the Bell Gargoyles, but I rolled them first try this time out (with the aid of Sun Bro Solaire). Mostly, the going's been pretty easy, but Chaos Witch Quelaag kicked my ass a few times. Managed to summon a phantom called Maneater Mildred (what a name!) to help me out, and finally nailed her with my trust longbow.

So yeah, good tense times being had over here.

Yeah, another Soul bro!! :) :) I took on Quelaag alone a long time ago, it was 20 minutes of terror...

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Last weekend I went for Demon's Souls (I still didn't get over that a monster bludgeoned the Filthy Old Woman vendor to death...), need to complete the whole Tower of Latria.
I'm 2 trophies to Platinum in this baby... damn Bladestone!!

Yeah, another Soul bro!! :) :) I took on Quelaag alone a long time ago, it was 20 minutes of terror...

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Last weekend I went for Demon's Souls (I still didn't get over that a monster bludgeoned the Filthy Old Woman vendor to death...), need to complete the whole Tower of Latria.
I'm 2 trophies to Platinum in this baby... damn Bladestone!!

I hated the Tower of Latria. The part where you're soooooo high up was nerve racking. :c

Dark Souls 2

The Tower of Latria is a bit intimidating because its all high walkways and pitch black background, but it was a lot easier for me this time because Soul Arrow/Soul Ray allowed me to snipe the Gargoyles as they flapped about in the air. No having them swipe at you and knock you off the walkways = gravy!

As for Quelaag.. I just couldn't seem to do much damage to her. My +5 Divine Balder Side Sword has been mighty fine so far, but even wielding it 2 handed, I was doing miserable damage to her. I could chip away at her, and I had most of her attacks down but it was taking so long that she'd eventually catch me with that AOE magic attack and that *destroyed* me. I got her so close one time, only to accidentally roll into some lava... My screams of lamentation were heard several counties away, I should think!

Finally gave in and used some Humanity to reverse hollowing, hoping Solaire or Lautrec would be about to summon. Got jumped by Maneater Mildred's Black Phantom on the way there (which was doubly alarming as I play offline!) but then rejoiced when I saw she could be summoned a White Phantom. Things like this make the pain worthwhile - truly awesome series. And the cutscene where Sen's Fortress opens is one of my favorites - it just looks so beautiful when the camera switches to inside the entrance hall, and you see the sunlight sparkling in as the gate opens. (Then you actually go into Sen's Fortress, and immediately get completely and utterly killed by the ferocious monsters and traps).

Good times, good times... :D

Going through an emulated (and upscaled - 1440x1080 res.) PAL release of FINAL FANTASY X, which in my opinion doesn't have much to envy to that travesty of a HD Remaster

I'm playing Oceanhorn

The Tower of Latria is a bit intimidating because its all high walkways and pitch black background, but it was a lot easier for me this time because Soul Arrow/Soul Ray allowed me to snipe the Gargoyles as they flapped about in the air. No having them swipe at you and knock you off the walkways = gravy!

I "fell in love" with the Tower of Latria since my first time (it only loses to Shrine of Storms). Used to be very afraid of the gargoyles but now I past run them. But, yes, once and a while I fall deep in the pits and get whacked by one or two Octopus Man (even the Celebrity Vermin killed me once...) :)

Project Zomboid. It is such a fun game with an old school SNES / late 90's RPG feel with alot of depth. Check it out or take a look at some game play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KouUXrU5eeM

For me, Boletarian Palace is by far the best of the Demon's Souls worlds. It looks the best with its castle city feel, and there's a strong narrative that incorporates all the bosses, but also the various NPCs like Biorr, Yuria, Ostrava and Miralda etc. I don't feel like the other worlds had quite the same focus. Tower of Latria and Valley of Defilement had some ongoing story, but not to the extent that the palace did. I would have liked to have seen the Golden Elder appear at the start of 3-2 in the cutscene and maybe throws some spells at you - kind of like how Seath the Scaleless has an intro encounter.

I should say that I felt like a real heel this time after finishing the game. I'd been a nice guy throughout the game, killing the bad NPCs and saving the good ones. But I realized that I hadn't seen the Evil Ending, as I chose the Good ending first time round. So I was idly throwing around the idea of killing the Maiden, but wasn't sure how to justify it from a roleplaying point of view. But then Sage Freke stopped me just before I went to the final area and advised me to kill the Maiden, because if she put the Old One to sleep, then magicians like me and him would lose all our Soul Magic powers. So that settled that - I killed her and got the Evil Ending.

And then I felt *terrible*! I mean, your character literally stomps her dead face into the ground and tramples over her in his lust for the Demon's Souls calling out to him. It was incredibly disturbing. But of course you can't just reload in Demon's Souls, so I was stuck with being a heartless monster. I'm making amends in my Dark Souls playthough - I'm a really nice guy in that game! :D

Destiny (Xbone)

I should say that I felt like a real heel this time after finishing the game. I'd been a nice guy throughout the game, killing the bad NPCs and saving the good ones. But I realized that I hadn't seen the Evil Ending, as I chose the Good ending first time round. So I was idly throwing around the idea of killing the Maiden, but wasn't sure how to justify it from a roleplaying point of view. But then Sage Freke stopped me just before I went to the final area and advised me to kill the Maiden, because if she put the Old One to sleep, then magicians like me and him would lose all our Soul Magic powers. So that settled that - I killed her and got the Evil Ending.

Go for Mephistopheles assassination quests to see how evil you can be ;)

Played a bit of The Witch & The Hundred Knight. I dunno, though, the game has more swearing than there needs to be in a T-rated game. Gameplay-wise, it's not too bad.

Today went for a little Resident Evil 6 (Yes, I like this game, it's, well, fun; funnier than RE 5 I daresay)
Finished Ada's campaign to unlock her and Carla in The Mercenaries. I'm still coping with the fact that my PS3 had to be formatted last year and I didn't replay many of the games I have to get EVERYTHING again back in the HD... at least the trophies are forever (I think) :D

PS4
Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn
Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate

PS3
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
White Knight Chronicles

Xbox 360
GTAV
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas

NDS
House MD

Whilst I tend to favor nice guy characters, I'm not above playing Evil character. But Assassins really aren't my thing. I never got the appeal of characters like these (and Thieves, Pirates, Ninjas etc - doesn't do anything for me). My brand of evil characters tend to be more the utterly crazed, Elder God/Extradimensional Being/Demonic worshipping, cannibalistic, self-mutilating, innocent-sacrificing crackpots. I mean if you're to be evil, you may as well be a real nutcase, right? :D

But its rare for me to play such characters as any kind of canon playthough, or one that I seriously care about. I'm usually always hovering somewhere between 'generally nice but here to make money' and 'Really nice guy who will take tough decisions if he has to'. So I'm usually some variety of neutral, tending towards Good rather than Evil. (What can I say - I just want to be Doctor Who!)

Edit: And you even like RE6, Franz! How are we not best friends?! :D

Currently playing... nothing. Just haven't felt up to it lately.

Currently playing Dota 2.

I can't stop playing Diablo 3 at the moment for some reason....bloody RNG god hates me as well...

Super Smash Bros. 3DS. It's amazing.

I was playing browser MMOs until my loser rage came back with a vengance and made me quit.


Played a bit of The Witch & The Hundred Knight. I dunno, though, the game has more swearing than there needs to be in a T-rated game. Gameplay-wise, it's not too bad.Hmm that's interesting, that's real 'don't judge a book by it's cover' (rating).

On 3DS: Shin Megami Tensei IV, I think I'm about 1/2 way done with it. At some point after I reached Shibuya I got a glitch where I looked like I was moving around underground instead of on the map and then the screen went black (not even the map screen was there, only the HUD was still visible), that occurred after I went to a demon instance map and beat the demon, then left, then headed back to Shibuya (to heal), and then when I reached shibuya that happened.

Still playing Rollercoaster Tycoon 2...ported it over for my mac! Hoping RCT:World will live up to its name though!?

Still playing Rollercoaster Tycoon 2...ported it over for my mac! Hoping RCT:World will live up to its name though!?

I'm really looking forward to RCTW. RTC3 is one of my favorite games of all time, and the screenshots remind me of that, but with better visuals.

Playing Tales of Legendia lately. It seems a lot easier than other Tales games I've played.

Playing Dynasty Warriors 7 (Platinuming) PS3

but mostly playing Dungeon n Fighter.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Star Trek: Armada 3

^Best "Star Trek' game I've played outside Bridge Commander.

Face Noir

I'm currently gaming the Super Smash Bros. for 3DS Special Demo.

Last weekend I alternated between Dark Souls II and Predator RE 6, fun times :D
Created a new character for DS II named Nyx, so pretty, just need to dress her in sexy clothes and I'll have a brunette princess!

Destiny

Dark Souls II trophy collection is at 80%, just one more week to download the last DLC and I think I can collect the last ones on NG+ and Platinum! :D

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Wii)
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (PC)*
Need for Speed: Underground 2 (PC)
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition (PC) **

*- Having problems with audio. I need the original WMA files... Every song is Windy Valley for some reason!
**- Hoping to reinstall soon. Low on HDD Space.... :(

Finished The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. Not sure what to play now.

Guys, forget games - clearly what we should be doing is buying one of those solid gold PS4s they're selling in the Arab Emirates. Only 8,500 quid - a steal really... Oh to be one of the 1%, eh?

Anyway, given that there still isn't anything I want to play out, I'm about ready to write this year off for original releases. Instead, I'm turning my attention to what next (or current I suppose) gen console to buy. Not sure I'm ready to jump just yet, but I'm starting to think about it at least. At the moment I'm torn - the PS4 looks like the safer bet with the better lineup, but I'm pretty sure that I want the Xbox 1 more. It just seems more appealing for some reason, and it does have the Halo games coming soon.

I'll repair to my meditation chamber and muse on it some more - (my solid gold meditation chamber of course).

Just reinstalled Sniper Elite III plus N*zi Zombie Army Vol. 1 and 2. It's so much fun. :3

FF4DS Steam

Super Mario 64

I always forgot how much fun this game is

I'm on chapter 4 of Legendia. Taking a break from it.
Played through Zone of the Enders HD the other night, but haven't started the second one yet. It was only 4 hours unfortunately, but it was very enjoyable.
Tried Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders. Got bored pretty quickly.
Tried the Smash Bros 3DS demo. Still not convinced.
Unlocked another Disgaea D2 ending.
Now playing Wind Waker HD on Hero Mode. Pretty tough, but nowhere near as hard as Skyward Sword on Hero Mode... x_x

Been replaying Suikoden IV.

Final Fantasy IV (Steam):
It's the DS game, but on Steam.

There's some frame-rate issues, hopefully that will get patched either by fans or Square.

God of War for platinum

Been replaying Suikoden IV.

How are you finding it? Personally, I felt it was the weakest of the series (even Rhapsodia which tied into Suiko IV was marginally better, and I love SRPG's)... but thankfully Suikoden V came along. Hope Konami makes another in the series soon.

On topic: Got bored of Destiny... I really can't understand the appeal so many have for it and fell for the hype. So, gone back to GTA Online on Xbox 360 and Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate on PS4 (though I might fire up Watch_Dogs as the new DLC for season pass holders is out today apparently).

How are you finding it? Personally, I felt it was the weakest of the series (even Rhapsodia which tied into Suiko IV was marginally better, and I love SRPG's)... but thankfully Suikoden V came along. Hope Konami makes another in the series soon.

On topic: Got bored of Destiny... I really can't understand the appeal so many have for it and fell for the hype. So, gone back to GTA Online on Xbox 360 and Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate on PS4 (though I might fire up Watch_Dogs as the new DLC for season pass holders is out today apparently).

I really enjoy it. The sailing bit gets boring, but gets much less time-consuming thanks to you-know-who later on. Some of the mini-games are very enjoyable, too. It was my 2nd Suikoden game I first played (Tactics being the first).

I really enjoy it. The sailing bit gets boring, but gets much less time-consuming thanks to you-know-who later on. Some of the mini-games are very enjoyable, too. It was my 2nd Suikoden game I first played (Tactics being the first).

I've finished Suiko IV... while it does pick up a bit, compared to the others it's still weaker. Suiko 1 and II are my personal favorites, specially the second. The minigames in it were awesome. If you can, I strongly suggest looking for the earlier ones and giving them a shot.

I played the first, the third and the fifth also. II is very expensive no matter where u look.

Suikoden... I've never played that, but I've wanted to, then forgot it existed lol. Which game would you recommend to someone new to the series?

Metro Redux (Metro 2033) on Xbox One

Suikoden... I've never played that, but I've wanted to, then forgot it existed lol. Which game would you recommend to someone new to the series?

In terms of gameplay, not the third one. It's a bit different from the rest of them. The rest of em have the same battle system, only IV has 4 characters per party rather than 6. Good candidates are both the first and the fifth one.

Pokemon Black 2, DotA 2, and Theatrhythm Final Fantasy

I modded the hell out of FF8 for PC.
^_^

Looks, and sounds, a LOT better than the original PC port or the original PS1 version.


There's the option to only replace the MIDI with the PS1 music, or you can replace the songs with various stuff from The Black Mages and other 'official', better sounding, remakes.

The peep(s) behind it went though a LOT of trouble to replace all the loops all proper like.

Fucking.Fantastic.



Even got the GCI stuff replace with BETTER looking versions.

Plus two graphical upgrades.
One that smooths out/fixes the majority of character and static world models.
Plus another that fixes stuff like the text, Triple Triad, and the pictures for most of the stuff.

^_^

Dark Souls 2.

I'm flip-flopping between really enjoying and merely enduring this one. It certainly doesn't have quite the same special magic about it that made the first 2 games, but it has it moments. Drangleic is mostly a pretty dull and uninspiring setting, the locations having almost no narrative and occasionally with bosses that feel completely out of place for the area (this is particularly the case in the optional side areas). Neither do the various locations seem to connect to each other in anything like an organic way. Add in that the NPCs are a pretty forgettable bunch (there's been no real standouts for me so far, but Gavlan is pretty funny), and well... its all quite disappointing really.

Except that like I said, it does have its moments when you think 'Ahh - now that's more like it!' Seeing the ship make its ghostly entrance in No-Man's Wharf was awesome (and enlivened an otherwise awful level). The Executioner's Chariot was fantastic, and felt like something out of Fighting Fantasy, which From Software have been quoted as saying they used as inspiration for these games. Really enjoyed smashing the crap out of those Ruin Sentinels as well - I knew keeping a strike weapon handy would pay off! They looked really cool though, all spindly and jerky like the Thin Men from X-COM: Enemy Unknown.

Mostly though, the game feels like its treading water rather than treading new ground. Hopefully Bloodborne will show the way forward, because although there are a few interesting changes here and there, Dark Souls 2 does have a 'going through the motions' feel. Its laudable that they made the game so long, but perhaps that just illustrates that unless you have an enormous budget to do justice to all the areas, it might be best to go for a less is more approach. Because there's a lot of really drab, underdesigned levels, recycled assets and (even by the series standards) rather scarce amount of interesting lore and truly iconic baddies. The Pursuer in particular feels like a tragically wasted opportunity, and could have been great as a recurring 'Nemesis' style enemy chasing you throughout the game in awkward locations.

So basically, it could have been worse, but it should have been better.

Hyrule Warriors - I got this on Friday. I preordered it so I got the Ocarina of Time costumes for Link and Zelda as well. Then there's another pack with more stuff too of course... grrr, of course I have to buy that too sometime. Really cool game so far I think.

I'm also playing Hyrule Warriors. I just finished Legend mode, and I'm trying Adventure now. I kinda wish there were more battle maps. Having to fight on the same ones multiple times is kinda lame.

Spent a day playing Hyrule Warriors... didn't like it at all. Just not a Zelda fan nowadays I guess...

Gone back to Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate. Good game, much better than it's original inception.

anna
slender the arrival
metro 2033
valiant hearts
socom fireteam bravo 2
silent hill origins.

the one i liked the most is anna, because it features THE most beautiful soundtrack to date. after chrono cross obviously.
i take my time solving the game because im in love with its music.

Been playing Two Worlds 2, lately. Trying to finish up the game after procrastinating from it. After finishing the main story, I'll get to Pirates of the Flying Fortress

after FFVIII, now I am playing Final Fantasy IX ^__^ ..even if veeeery slowly now. But ... no reason to hurry :3

Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
Dark Cloud
Kingdom Hearts

Dark Souls 2 - Day 5000...

Forget what I said about this being a long game - its a *really* long game! I feel like I've killed about 70,000 bosses and depopulated an area the size of Africa. I even joined the Brotherhood of Blood covenant, because I figured my guy had to be permanently drenched from head to toe in blood by now. No amount of scrubbing will get that off! I just waded through Drangleic Castle, met the Queen and was directed to a secret passage to get to the King... and its full of new enemies!

When I saw them, I just thought 'Oh go away... give a man some peace!!'

First of all, I have returned home earlier in the mornin and have been out all nite. Super Smash is out for 3DS, but unfortunately for me, I have no interest in the game or the series itself. Now that that's outta the way, I picked up my preorders for Ar Nosurge, Natural Doctrine and Fairy Fencer F. Dunno which one I should play first. Any suggestions?

I got Fairy Fencer F too, but haven't played it yet. Still playing Hyrule Warriors, when I have time... Adventure mode is starting to get a bit grindy though.

@aces4839 : I have Fairy Fencer F (Yoshitaka Amano as concept artist and Nobuo Uematsu as composer? I'm sold!) and Ar NoSurge: Ode to a Unborn Star (got them last week), both good games. Won't get NAtURAL DOCtRINE until next week... release was delayed here in Australia.

Did get Samurai Warriors 3 for the Wii... so my SW collection is complete... til the fourth comes out in a couple of weeks. Love the character creation mode so far.

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS