Still trying to finish DXC, but its controller crushingly hard. Dracula's 3rd form is just outrageous - the guy has so many different attacks and they're all super powerful. The real killer being that you have to beat his 2 other forms first (which admittedly are very easy), and there is no way to recover health during the fight at all, nor any checkpoints.

Its been a long time since I experienced the age old Castlevania boss rage. But I was raging hard last night, I tell you :D

switching back and forth between Resident Evil Revelations 2 and Biohazard Remaster.

on my quest to unlocked the unlimited samurai edge and ultimately the rocket launcher.

Mass Effect. Working on some Trophies still need to unlock.

Vanquished Drac at last. Most of the fight was actually really easy, but he has an annoying flame wave attack that he hardly ever uses, but has a super quick cast time, and travels really fast along the ground that he kept cheesing me with at inopportune moments. But anyway, I got him (but not for long, seeing as how this game is direct prequel to SotN...)

Guy already gets to come back from the dead every 100 years. That'd be enough for most people, but he wants to go and break the cycle and keep coming back sooner?! Give the Belmonts a day off now and then Drac, you big Transylvanian cheat! :D

Been unlocking some trophies in MGS 2 Sons of Liberty. Starting with the easier ones because the ones that require collecting dog tags I've no hopes of getting so soon... Ganbare!

Just played IA/VT -COLORFUL- for nine hours almost constantly. Must be one of the coolest rhythm games ever.

Just finished NeverDead. Pretty good. Not the best, but it was pretty good. :)

To the Moon

Was watching Netflix for 3 days watching once upon a time, and returned to dead island.Right now I need to collect some deo bombs and Molotov cocktails for the city, because I cannot survive without them.

Grass Simulator.

Alternating Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty/3: Snake Eater/Peace Walker ~ HD Edition, TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 and Dead Nation� All on PS3 and Platinum'ed some time ago. Especially satisfied with the latter game, this evening I've earned the gold trophy for getting to the 10th round of the DLC "Road of Devastation", quite the feat since I last touched it in 2011.

Now I don't know what to play, I can start on the Resident Evil REmake Remaster, or do the crazy thing and complete again 100% of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

Garry's Mod: Prop Hunt

Hey Leon, how do you feel about the possibility of a resident evil 2 remake? Capcom was asking us fans what we want from a resident evil 2 remake.

Also:If you are doing the dog tags, remember not to miss the dog tags in the marine room in the submarine at the beginning of the game.

As for me:I played a little bit of metro 2033 yesterday, and i didn't like it.The game is very linear, and i don't like the limited amount of ammo in the game.On top of that:I do admit i am a little biased since I don't like first person shooters most of the time.Games like call of duty and gears of war bore me to tears.The only advantage i see, is that the game doesn't focus on multiplayer, which is good, because games that are 100% about multiplayer maps, have usually terrible campaigns that are very short.

Just finished NieR. Had a blast playing all endings live.
Gonna start something 'Spooky's House Of Jumpscares' soon.
Don't expect too much of it tho.

I saw markiplier play spooky house of jump scares, and it seemed fun and repetitive at the same time.Some levels will catch you off guard.

Hey Leon, how do you feel about the possibility of a resident evil 2 remake? Capcom was asking us fans what we want from a resident evil 2 remake.
Had I heard of such "thing" back when the Resident Evil REmake originally got released on GameCube, I would have been ecstatic; nowadays, I don't trust the CAPCOM's team(s) ability to pull it off without screwing it up badly, heck, if I'm not mistaken, they said that fan-made RE2 remake caught their eye… A piece of crap with ripped models from other games which seems to play a bit too much like RE4 for my liking.
I'm not really a fan of remakes, generally, I disliked the "Twin Snakes" game of the Metal Gear Solid series and I'm wary of what Square might do with the new FFⅦ… RE2 is great as it is, plus, cult classics are best left alone, I would prefer much more if CAPCOM gave me a RE7 worthy of the saga's legacy, none of the stuff put on plate by RE4+RE5+RE6+Rev. spin-offs.

In short, I'd rather not have a RE2 remake, I'll stick to playing the original in case it does happen.

The Static Speaks My Name

I personally would love to see REmake 2, so long as they don't retcon stuff that doesn't need to be.

Been on BlazBlue: Continuum Shift: Extend on the tutorial, mainly so I can understand some of its features. Currently on War Thunder and I'm thinking about getting started on XCOM The Long War.

Well The Static Speaks My Name was a ten minute game. Well then.
Ok, onto Garry's Mod: Trouble In Terrorist Town

I think it would be a good thing for the RE team of today to work on an old school RE game. It would give them a chance to really get to grips with and try to understand what the hardcore RE fans loved about the older games. And if doesn't turn out well, then hey, its not like our old copies of RE2 will self destruct.

I think it would be a good thing for the RE team of today to work on an old school RE game. It would give them a chance to really get to grips with and try to understand what the hardcore RE fans loved about the older games. And if doesn't turn out well, then hey, its not like our old copies of RE2 will self destruct.

in my opinion:Resident evil 2 should get the same makeover that re1 got.The team did very well, and actually made the game scarier with crimson heads.

What I don't want, is re2 turning into a multiplayer first person shooter or turd person shooter.Limit ammo, because resident evil is about that.To turn re2 into re5 would make a lot of fans angry, since I have noticed that some people consider re2 the best.

Had no internet since I woke up on my b-day Thursday which sucked like hell. But I'm finally back. Been playing Ar Tonelico: Melody Of Elemia. Currently in the second phase.

The thing is, that Resident Evil remake is very old now itself. Shinji Mikami was still about when they did that. And though the reissue of the remake did pretty well just recently, its original release on the Gamecube was a terrible flop, leading them to stop their original plans for RE4 and turn it into the more action focused game that it became.

So it stands to reason that Capcom would be a little unsure of how to proceed. The purist fans obviously want something like RE Remake, but the problem is that the fanbase is splintered into different generations of gamers now, who want different things from the series. The later games in the series raise the hackles of the old fans, but they sell very well and have attracted a new following of co-op playing fans (reading posts about RE5 and 6 on the net, you'd think everyone hates them, but go online with both of those games, and they are always *full* of players doing co-op, all day, everyday, even now).

Capcom have asked fans what they want, which is basically code for 'If we do this properly and remake it like you say you want, will you actually buy it, or will it flop like RE1 Remake did the first time and make us look like utter chumps?'

Welcome back.What is ar tonelico melody of Elemia? Shooter? Rpg?

As for you vrykolas:You are correct that re1 remake is a little old.

Re4, 5 and 6 failed s horror games, and succeeded as just shooter games.Re5 had good multiplayer campaign, but multiplayer is hard to balance to make it scary.I also think that re5 went in the wrong direction, giving up its horror elements in favor of the me too shooter thing.

It's an rpg. Also, Resident Evil 4 is the highest averaged rating PS2 game on gamerankings.com out of thousands of games with a 95.85%, so you might want a second opinion, dood.

But as a cop-op shooter, it is *massively* popular. I spent several months playing it again at the start of this year, and its always bursting with people, as is the critically derided (but a guilty pleasure of mine) Operation Raccoon City. I've never had to wait longer than 5 seconds to be matched to someone's game - ever. And I've made lots of friends doing RE6's co-op, helping them through the Professional campaign etc.

They aren't scary games at all, but that isn't what the fans of the newer games want. The older games are of very little relevance to them, but they still consider themselves fans of the series - moreso than the older fans in many cases, because they are supporting the series right now. I'm fine with both incarnations of the series, because I think RE always had enough action and is set in an appropriate world where co-op action suits it just as much as survival horror. So I'm fine with them releasing both kinds of RE games (Revelations 2 from this year is pretty old school survival horror for example and I liked that just fine too).

With RE2, Capcom have to ask themselves what will really be served by doing a remake of that game? The older fans will appreciate (and will likely only accept) a faithful remake, but that won't be cheap. If they use it as an opportunity to blood their new teams on making proper survival horror games, and then transfer that experience into making a new proper RE survival horror, then that would obviously be the big win scenario.

But that would still leave them needing something for the newer fans to play, because as online co-op shooters go, the RE games are actually really, really good ones.

I need to come back to Persona 2 Tsumi patched. Last time I was in Konan...

Thinking about Persona 2 always irritates me, due to Atlus not releasing the sequel Eternal Punishment in Europe...

Grr!

Thinking about Persona 2 always irritates me, due to Atlus not releasing the sequel Eternal Punishment in Europe...

Grr!

Is that so? Why not go for emulators?

Don't have the technical knowhow for all that jazz! When it comes to technology, I'm just happy if it doesn't all blow up really...

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But as a cop-op shooter, it is *massively* popular. I spent several months playing it again at the start of this year, and its always bursting with people, as is the critically derided (but a guilty pleasure of mine) Operation Raccoon City. I've never had to wait longer than 5 seconds to be matched to someone's game - ever. And I've made lots of friends doing RE6's co-op, helping them through the Professional campaign etc.

They aren't scary games at all, but that isn't what the fans of the newer games want. The older games are of very little relevance to them, but they still consider themselves fans of the series - moreso than the older fans in many cases, because they are supporting the series right now. I'm fine with both incarnations of the series, because I think RE always had enough action and is set in an appropriate world where co-op action suits it just as much as survival horror. So I'm fine with them releasing both kinds of RE games (Revelations 2 from this year is pretty old school survival horror for example and I liked that just fine too).

With RE2, Capcom have to ask themselves what will really be served by doing a remake of that game? The older fans will appreciate (and will likely only accept) a faithful remake, but that won't be cheap. If they use it as an opportunity to blood their new teams on making proper survival horror games, and then transfer that experience into making a new proper RE survival horror, then that would obviously be the big win scenario.

But that would still leave them needing something for the newer fans to play, because as online co-op shooters go, the RE games are actually really, really good ones.

The fact that certain series make departure for larger audiences and going mainstream itself, is a reason why it will be impossible to satisfy either one.If you do a half ass job being horror and shooter, you end up with shit.I think the ff series went this direction in my opinion with FFXIII.

I heard massive amounts of critique of re6.To me, it does annoy me that resident evil abandoned its horror routes for the easy route of:Me too wannabe a left4 dead multiplayer clone.The original resident evil series had a unique feel.It had the cheesy dialogue, the jump scares and the legitimate shit your pants moments, which I am finding horror genre on consoles to be scarce.A lot of the horrors I am seeing, are mostly indie companies, like the one who made slender man, the spooky house of 1000 rooms, and the one of the baby feeding monsters who live under the bed.I heard that dead space isn't even scary, and I wasn't scared in dead space 2 demo.

Resident evil came out before silent hill, so that kind of genre was newer, and it stood out.Nowadays, the series has identity crisis.Does it want to be horror? Of a co op shooter?

If it's a co op shooter with multiplayer elements, it isn't going to. Scary, especially since you can kill everything, unless you manage to limit ammo, and force people to conserve ammo and healing medicine, and force them into impossible situations that are freaky.Being able to kill all monsters in multiplayer destroys any sense of dread, because you know you can just brute force your way through, and in multiplayer, it is even easier to do that, unless your companion too has limited ammo and medicine, and has some sort of restriction, like say:Dying very fast, but can heal you and also cure the virus, but if infected:You are screwed.

Personally:In this day and age:Zombie multiplayer turd and first person shooters are a common, and shooters in general are a vast ocean so large, it's the mass market of the Xbox.Call of duties ghost, modern warfare, etc etc.

Even worse:Zombie genre right now is so vast, that anything that doesn't stand out, ends up forgotten in a pile underneath of the post apocalyptic zombie genre.If you want to stand out, you need to be exceptional.At the time, re4 stood out so much, because it was exceptional and different for its time.Nowadays, re5 isn't much different from other multiplayer co op missions, except there is no pvp, which I am fucking glad, because that market is overcrowded.

On Warhammer: Battle March, and I FINALLY got past the ambush mission(the one I rage quit on)on the Orcs campaign after understanding what I've been doing wrong.

Well, I disagree that its just the same as all those other shooters. RE mixes living enemies who can use equipment, guns etc, the standard zombie hordes, but also a bestiary of animals and mutated creatures. It also has a spy/corporate espionage/James Bond style undercurrent, so if they wanted to, they could run that kind of game credibly in the RE universe as well.

As ever, you can pull all kinds of posts and essays and reviews and whatnot out, but that doesn't alter the basic facts - i.e that lots of people play these games and love them. If you looked around on the internet, you'd think *everyone* hates Operation Raccoon City, and that nobody at all would be playing it. But go online and you see that isn't the case. The difficulty here is that this popularity is the most awkward one to assess, because its from people who don't care about giving an opinion on these things. These are gamers who simply like to play good co-op shooters, and from my experiences I can confirm that their numbers are legion and they really do like the games! Older fans often hate these games for not being real RE games and the newer fans for not being real RE fans. But the situation is what it is. Horror games don't sell and action games do. RE4 showed how the series could transition to being something that would bring in the cash for Capcom, so its hardly surprising that they ran with that. And since despite the vocal opposition by indignant older fans, the newer games are both much better than those people claim and have their own fans who are supporting and pumping money into the series.

I'm really not sure you can blame Capcom for any of this. They aren't running a charity, and they aren't going to turn their backs on the huge numbers of people who *do* love the new game's direction, to try and please the older fans who are asking for something that is no longer finanically viable. Because look at the sales figures. There was so much talk recently of a survival horror revival, but it never really happened. Amnesia Machine for Pigs flopped, Alien Isolation and Evil Within were both very, very minor hits at best. Add to this the fact that a game that was cricified by the press and derided by mostly everyone who ever speaks of it in ORC, was a healthy sales hit. But before you paint me as some corporate apologist, I'm simply dealing in realities, and because in this instance I happen to like the products that Capcom are producing, even though they fly in the face of my treasured old RE games. So I do hope that some kind of compromise can be reached, whereby they will release survival horror RE games as well. Revelations is sort of that, but its also a more budget affair than the main series, and the recent one was very rough around the edges, meaning it couldn't be all that scary, despite a clear commitment to being a proper survival horror game (ammo and health is incredibly scarce in that game, and thee are invisible one hit KO enemies...).

And I think Capcom are trying to do right by the older fans, but they're just not sure exactly how to do it at the moment. With the series creator and principal figures from those early games gone, Capcom have the right and licenses to do stuff with the old games, but not the expertise or experience with the genre. They surely know that there is the risk if they try to fiddle about with the old games with untrained hands, they'll kill the golden goose and send the old fans into frenzy mode. But them asking what the fans think about a RE2 remake, the mere existence of the Revelations survival horror REs and stuff like the Lost in Nightmares dlc for RE5, show they are trying to accomodate the old fans and aren't just sticking 2 fingers up at them.

That's my reading of the situation anyway. The fact is that replacing people like Shinki Mikami and Hideki Kamiya is no easy task. But the show must go on as they say, and they have yet to find a permanent replacement to put in charge of RE. Its a complicated and difficult balancing act to manage an ongoing concern that is also one of the gaming industry treasures and sacred cows. Not surprising that they are having trouble finding someone who can tame this beast.

Well then, the series is dead to me.

Its just the way of the world. Its all very well you and me stamping our feet calling for proper scary survival horror games, but they don't sell. If you agreed to buy about 4 million copies of a new RE Survival horror game yourself, then I'm sure Capcom would be happy to make one for you. If not, you can hardly criticise them for not commiting finnancial suicide. RE Remake is one of the best survival horror games ever made - and it didn't sell. If people didn't buy *that* game in big numbers, then its safe to say they won't buy *any* survival horror game nowadays. Not in the amounts that would make the game profitable. It sucks, but there it is.

Its a nice thought that quality games will always sell, because their inherent quality will break down people's reservations about genres they don't usually like. But history shows this isn't the case. Horror games are only really viable as short, download games that deliver short, sharp shocks and don't outlast their welcome with the general public. Which again, sucks. But barring some truly inspited (and very lucky in terms of being greenlit in the first place) game coming out to buck this trend, that is how things will stay.

Capcom know how to please their buying public with RE. What they don't know how to do is to get the older fans out of their unpleaseable fanbase shells. They're trying but as history also teaches us, the gaming public give absolutely no points for a good effort or a good try.

Resident Evil 6 is officially a failure (http://www.destructoid.com/resident-evil-6-is-officially-a-failure-243965.phtml)

Resident Evil 6 fails to meet sales projections ... again (http://www.destructoid.com/resident-evil-6-fails-to-meet-sales-projections-again-253379.phtml)

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Resident Evil HD broke all sorts of sales records (http://www.destructoid.com/resident-evil-hd-broke-all-sorts-of-sales-records-287427.phtml)

Resident Evil HD paid off for Capcom, producer thanks fans (http://www.destructoid.com/resident-evil-hd-paid-off-for-capcom-producer-thanks-fans-287512.phtml)


I rest my Case.

And what has that brought "us" to? More remasters/special editions, yay for freshness. The Revelations spin-offs do have improvements, in terms of "style", but they are marginal: both chapters still wink the eye to shooters' fans. At any rate:

Resident Evil 2 was the entry in the series with most copies sold. | Resident Evil 5 was the game to break/surpass that sales number.

Sales data rests "its" case.

It's somewhat sad, but part of Resident Evil's fans should really learn to let go; unless a miracle happens, the only chance to see a Survival Horror entry in the series is by either replaying the originals, or hope for a remaster treatment. The fanbase online makes for quite the laughing stock nowadays: they complain about the games' quality, rightly so, I'll give you that, but they fail to realize they are but a small fraction of those who end up purchasing a game. Heck, back when the only thing known about RE6 were trailers and demos users were already saying it was going to be crap, yet the game still managed to move something like 6+ million copies, more or less.

Its just the way of the world. Its all very well you and me stamping our feet calling for proper scary survival horror games, but they don't sell. If you agreed to buy about 4 million copies of a new RE Survival horror game yourself, then I'm sure Capcom would be happy to make one for you. If not, you can hardly criticise them for not commiting finnancial suicide. RE Remake is one of the best survival horror games ever made - and it didn't sell. If people didn't buy *that* game in big numbers, then its safe to say they won't buy *any* survival horror game nowadays. Not in the amounts that would make the game profitable. It sucks, but there it is.

Its a nice thought that quality games will always sell, because their inherent quality will break down people's reservations about genres they don't usually like. But history shows this isn't the case. Horror games are only really viable as short, download games that deliver short, sharp shocks and don't outlast their welcome with the general public. Which again, sucks. But barring some truly inspited (and very lucky in terms of being greenlit in the first place) game coming out to buck this trend, that is how things will stay.

Capcom know how to please their buying public with RE. What they don't know how to do is to get the older fans out of their unpleaseable fanbase shells. They're trying but as history also teaches us, the gaming public give absolutely no points for a good effort or a good try.



Resident evil 5 wasn't a flop, but it has garnered a lot of mixed reviews.The fans of shooter games with multiplayer aspect loved it, and the fans who wanted a horror game hated it, and re6 certainly got bad bad reputation from fans of horror.

Also:Another issue aside from sales, is the cost.The cost to produce a high graphic triple a game is immense, and if it fails, that is bad news.The problem is so bad, that many Japanese rpg companies have moved to making games on android and iPhones to be cheaper, especially if they aren't really famous, or just new.Part of this is our fault, because we keep demanding more graphics, and part of it is the problem is going ahead and moving technology is costing massive amounts of money for the technology.

J think the reason resident evil5 got less flack, was because it was a decent multiplayer, although some make fun of Chris redfield the Boulder-Puncher, because he was so drastically different from re1, and look like he was on steroids.

The game had its issues too.Sheva was annoying, and used herbs when she didn't need to, and was almost like an escort mission while having her, but at least it wasn't as bad as Ashely graham.Ashley graham was a train reck.

Sales Data would be resting "their" Case, i was presenting them so i was resting "my" Case...

I have bought and played every Game in the Series from 1 to 6, plus both Revelations & Chronicles Titles upon Release, so i feel i am qualified
to make a proper statement.

I'll keep it short... Basically it's not feasible for Capcom to produce ~7 Hour Single Player only Survival Horror Game.
There is much more Money to be made in Coop Shooters.

The REmake sold well because it was cheaper to produce and many people had not played it yet due to it being GC exclusive.
Same goes for the forthcoming RE Zero... Which was excellent btw.

As for myself, i will buy the Zero Remake for sure and RE 2 aswell, if it is done in the same style as the other 2, i.e. new Routes, nice Graphics,
new puzzles, new enemie(s) etc,etc. Just don't do it ala the Unreal 4 & Unity Resident Evil 4 Style Fan Remakes online.

Will skip RE 7 if there aren't any major selling points which i can't see happening.

Welcome to the club, same goes for me as far as Resident Evil games "played" are concerned. CAPCOM is about business, in a perfect world both groups of fans might get the games they want, but money has told CAPCOM Survival Horror is no longer profitable quite some time ago. Hell, look at the sales of most chapters (aside from 2) and you might notice the Resident Evil saga never moved that many copies until RE4 got released, back then Survival Horror was already a niche genre, things only got worse after that piece of crap's success.

While the success of the REmake HD remaster is rather remarkable, with it being both an old game and available for sale only in digital form in most places, I could only cringe when I read players stating that its success will bring Survival Horror back, the one thing CAPCOM has seen in its success is the potential for easy money with cheap remasters, the re-release of Zero is proof enough of that.

The biggest reason RE6 failed as bad as it did is… "Ambition": they wanted for that game to be something to everyone, it ended up being a mess, it lacked focus, the few things that game got right shine only in the Mercenaries extra mode.
I'm lucky enough to enjoy both pre- and post-RE4 chapters, unfortunately for me and luckily for CAPCOM, I'm a sucker for the saga's lore/story, as long as they'll keep releasing chapters expanding on it, I'll keep getting 'em.

On a Five Nights at Freddy's fix... finished the first, onto the second.

Failure is a relative term, when we are talking about big name games. The Tomb Raider remake was considered a disappointment in terms of sales by Square Enix, despite having outstanding sales, because of the ridiculous amounts you need to create to have genuine profit these days. RE6 still sold extremely well, but the amount it needed to sell to be considered a success is the kind of amount which games simply cannot get these days, now that the consumer base is splintering into mobile and indie areas etc. And the REmake did not sell well on the GC. Capcom admitted that themselves. The reissue of the remake recently did sell well, because it was cheap and it was a convenient download. People figured 'Hey, why not?' There is no evidence at all which would support the idea rhat a big budget full on horror RE game would have the kind of mass market appeal it would need to justify the cost involved. It would be an absurd risk in these times, especially for a Japanese company, which are more at risk than most, given the volatility of the Jap games market right now.

I should also point out that those who think RE2 was scary are remembering that game through rose tinted glasses. It was never a scary game, and was much more influenced by a spy thriller/corporate espionage/James Bond style feel than the original game's 'Escape from the Haunted House' style. After the first section in the Police station, it becomes more of a Bond movie style caper, with the Mr X taking on a Jaws style role, chasing after Leon, Ada being the obvious Bond Girl femme fatale, and the whole spies. double agents, corporate security teams led by HUNK etc etc. The director of the game has stated many, many, many times that he doesn't actually like the horror genre at all, and doesn't like scary things!

As for your AI partner being unreliable in RE5, well its a co-op shooter. Its meant to be played with another person, and is much more fun if you do (as is RE6). And reviews don't count for anything, as I've said many times. The gaming press is not an indepedant voice, and it has too many vested interests. Add in that they are just as prone as the older fans to knee jerk 'This isn't like the old games SO IT SUCKS!' as anyone, and their opinion is as utterly irrelevant as always.

Like I said before, people can write what they want and quote figures etc. But the proof of the pudding is whether people are actually playing these games. And you don't need to take my word for it. Rent a copy of RE5, RE6, ORC etc and go online. You'll see they are a hive of activity. Figures can be made to say anything, but seeing all these people playing the games is hard evidence that these games are finding an audience.The old days of survival horror are gone. I live in hope that someone will manage to release a truly inspired game that reinvigorates the genre, but until then, we have to scrape by with whatever we can get. The Evil Within was about as good as you could hope for. Its not really scary at all, but at least the survival aspect is there, with ammo and health being genuinely scarce. Games like that and Dead Space 1 and 2... they're by no means perfect, but they're about as good as it gets now.

The last time I was genuinely scared playing a game was Corpse Party (its a sort of cross between survival horror and adventure game). And its utterly terrifying.

Vrykolas, I think your assessment of the older RE2 not being a scary a game is somewhat "misguided": sidestepping the notion that what ultimately makes a game scary is subjective, you seem to be looking at lore/story/location elements, sorry, I think you should take into account gameplay elements: what drove the older REs was forcing you in a maze-like location, severely outnumbered, starting with scarce resources and not really being able to hold your own effectively against groups of enemies (you weren't a master of dodging and your weapons simply weren't strong enough, at the start, at least), on top of it all you also had to deal with the trouble of limited-space inventories. Technically speaking, the focus of most older REs was tactical management of resources, not shooting everything on sight (like in RE4 and sequels).

While any player of RE2 worth his/her salt can tell you that, yes, that game is actually loaded with ammunition and healing items, the developers tried to be smart about it and not really "gift" that stuff to you: given the weird placement, for some of it you have to actually take detours from the main path and also examine seemingly non-interactive parts of the pre-rendered backgrounds. For a first timer which isn't "cheating" and using a guide, the initial run through any of the old REs is bound to be a bit problematic. The old games also presented you many times with small, but very impacting choices to make:

- There's a group of enemies in this room: do I kill them? Or do I try to get past them and preserve ammo? Both decisions come with their pros and cons: by choosing a a path you might end with a safe room, less ammunition and perhaps a bit of damage. While the other option shares a potential danger, you might be able to save the "good stuff" for the next big bad guy encounter.

- The way the gameplay was structured tried to convey feelings of tension/anxiousness: am I taking enough stuff with me? Am I leaving enough free space? Am I taking the right path? Should I bother checking that room? What if it has nothing of value to me or, holy crap, it has enemies in it? As we can see, the player has to take a measure of risk with most of these options. Someone who has already played a RE or a similar Survival Horror knows the drill and is not going to be THAT "negatively" affected, but I think that if one takes the time to look at each of the old REs, he/she easily sees they succeeded as games about Survival, with a tint of horror. Maybe they're not universally scary games, but I'm willing to bet many gamers didn't feel very "safe" for a decent length of the older entries through their first run; I know I was always wondering if I was good enough to advance, at least.

Tell me that's still the case now. I mean, in a way, you can say that the older REs discouraged any kind of unnecessary confrontation with enemies, they were mere obstacles taking away ammo and health from you, you were greatly rewarded if you had the skills to swerve through them. Nowadays, we find ourselves at the opposite end of the spectrum: with current REs you are encouraged to shoot everything, because for one sometimes you don't actually advance to the next room until you've killed every enemy and, secondly, those retarded examples of A.I. may leave behind ammunition and healing items. You also have OTS camera, sidestep, roll, sliding, dashes, all kinds of melee attacks at your disposal to make the task a lot easier for you. You no longer are a guy which can hold a weapon and run if the need arises, you're a killing machine; the HUD might even tell you where you need to go wreak havoc next. Resident Evil is no longer about survival, the games make sure enough you get plenty of healing items and ammo, it's about killing and being led from one scripted event to the next.

I feel compelled to point out all this talk isn't remembering through nostalgia-filled glasses, is looking at what once mattered most in a game: its gameplay.

Oh, great, I feel like playing a Dynasty Warriors now.

That is precisely why i feel a loss from not having a resident evil survival horror anymore.Isnt there a way to release it cheaper by making it on another.platform, like android and then making it scary again? I mean I would rather have a good survival horror over a generic shooter.Its not about rose tinted glasses, because until about 8 years ago, I became a fan of horror games, or maybe I was a fan all along and didn't knew it.

What you are ignoring is that the newer games do have good gameplay - it just isn't the gameplay you want to be in these games LSK. And since there are a great many people who *do* want that, why should Capcom only listen to your voice? They shouldn't ignore it either, but they can't make a game just to please you. And saying you're not alone, falls back into the same thing we've been discussing. Fans always insist that if a game is 'done right' then it will receive its just rewards in terms of sales. But that is not so.

And as to your examples on gameplay. I'm sorry, but what does any of that have to do with scares? You detail the survival aspect sure, but is that actually making it scary? The basic tools of the RE scare kit do include the solitary hero, the awkward movement, the camera angles etc. It creates a tense atmosphere, but this only lasts a short time, because eventually the player will acclimate to it, and start playing better, start to learn how to game the system, how to manage their inventory to give themselves the best chance etc. The gameplay setup you describe is one ingredient in scares, but without a proper atmosphere and scripted scares, it isn't enough by itself. Plus frankly, you are *grossly* overstating the difficulty of blasting through those games. Its perfectly possible to do just that - dodging enemies usually ends up costing you more health than its worth. The trick is to know what ammo and weapon to use against what enemies. Used sensibly, you can get by comfortably. As with many games, many people simply convince themselves that any use of ammo, any hits they suffer mean they've screwed up utterly and are doomed to fail in the long run. Its a similar scenario in the Metal Gear games, where instead of being stealthy, its quite possibly to just brute force your way through.

To return to the issues of scares, these are more down to the atmosphere and tension a game can create and whether it can sustain this. How they manage the camera angles, the sound, the general look, all remain important. But they need to constantly be evaluating 'Is it still scary?' Because you get used to such things. Even in games like Silent Hill 2 with its extremely sadistic camera and high pitched static when enemies were nearby, the player adapts eventually. So you can't just use this devices as crutches and expect them to have the same effect throughout. I'd argue that RE2 had hardly any actual scares in it, and only one of those doesn't involve Mr X ambushing you (the one truly effective scare RE2 has is the Licker leaping through the mirror in the interrogation rooms - that was a real lose your shit moment!) But mostly, the game was a very low horror affair. There are far less out and out horror moments than in the first game (and particularly the remake which added all the bits with the mutated Frankenstein's monster girl into the game). Don't have a go at me for focusing on lore, because RE2 is very lore heavy. RE1 spaces out its storytelling, and lets the atmosphere tell the story for the most part. RE2 has a more complex plot, due to all the spies and agents involved who are covering things up and seizing evidence etc). Therefore it spends much more time on this stuff than RE1, which only really needed to devote serious time to story near the end.

I think its fairly obvious just by looking at the 2 games, which is the more horror focused game. Shinji Mikami and RE2's director didn't get along at all in the beginning, until Mikami conceded that he needed to just stand back and let the new guys make the game they wanted to make, and just pitch in and veto the stuff he really couldn't live with.

And NG, it depends what you mean by having real horror in these games. Because only RE1 ever really was all that scary. People seem to forget that in the history of gaming, there are very, very few survival horror which were *really* all that scary. Silent Hill is much touted, but only the 2nd one was actually scary (though that is still probably the scariest game ever made). Its not an easy to make scary games, and I would argue that anyone who has a go at RE because 'it isn't scary anymore' most definately *are* looking through the rose tinted glasses.

They have tried to make cheaper RE games that are more survival horror oriented - they are the Revelations games. They aren't very scary, but they are very survival games in a horror setting, which is all RE ever was really even in the olden days. I have a great deal of sympathy for what people who want a return to the old RE values want, but if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. We might want it, but it'll never happen, and it isn't because Capcom are being jerks, but because it simply wouldn't make any sense for them to do it.

Been playin Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge on my PS2. Just fully finished the game and broke every record. Game's not as tough as the first one, but still just as painful in some levels, namely the last couple Super Retro ones.

Also made it to Phase 3 in Ar Tonelico: Melody Of Elemia.

Playing Snatcher and Policenauts both are masterpieces and totally worth playing it.

Gone to Call of Duty Advanced Warfare.

Quadrant

Actually:Yes re 1 was scarier than a few of the other ones that come after, because it is new. and you don't know what to expect, which is why in the fnaf games, making each game differently, made it scary again because you didn't know what to expect.Silent hill 2 in my opinion is kinda scary at times, and the prison guy who keeps talking is freaky, but I'm sorry, I find the first game scarier than 2 and 3.1 was scarier, because it's your first trip to silent hill, you don't know what is going on.By game 2 and 3, you have familiarized yourself more with each passing game.The problem with resident evil 1, is that it really isn't that scary.Sure the first few times are scary, and I dread fighting hunters, but knowing the silly dialogue sucks the horror out.Barrys lines and Chris lines are so ridiculously cheezy, and the acting is terrible.I honestly think from watching lets plays of resident evil remake of 1 has given me an appreciation of the detail of horror.Also there is an issue of indie cheap jump scares.Some work, others don't.I have seen videos of let's plays of house of jump scares and other stuff alike.I am actually not too fond of jump scares, unless it is done right.If it is abused, it becomes predictable as you would say.

The main reason i am against capcom turning resident evil, is because it is deceptive.Sure you say let it go, but that is easy for you to say.The market is flooded with shooters, and a lot of people love them, and others laud them and the cash ins for the me too market.A lot of shooters don't even have much story, like gears of war, and most focus on action over story.

I still stand by what I said, even if it is less popular.Is there no way to compromise? I mean a way they can keep horror title and make a shooter with a different name, or do both at the same time? 1 shooter 1 horror.

Broken Sword: Director's Cut(PC)

ARK: Survival Evolved, eating Dinosaur Feces.

Bakudan * Handan, aka. Sweet Fuse: At Your Side (on PSVita). I have never played Otome-games before, but I am absolutely hooked on this game. Well-written story with good music, humour and characters. Too bad it is almost forgotten being the last game on PSP that was released on West, but this one is a true gem indeed. Lovely game.

Spore

Like I said earlier NG, Capcom already are doing what you wanted, putting out shooter RE games and horror ones. The main series is the co-op shooter, the Revelations series is the survival horror. The problem is the disparity of budget. The revelations series is made for a tiny fraction of the cost that the main series games are. Because its the only way to keep a survival horror game at all cost viable. But that obviously leads to those games being much less polished than you'd hope for. And when the production values aren't AAA, its hard to build atmosphere, because everyone is just saying 'Man, this game doesn't look very nice, look at how rough it all is etc etc'.

Its an unsquareable circle. They can't justify spending big bucks on a product which the games buying public have unfortnately made it clear they will not buy. The hardcore fans will buy it, but they would have bought it anyway regardless of what it was like, even if only so they could complain about it. Such is the burden of being a fan... :D

If your idea of compromise is for Capcom to make a big budget AAA survival horror game with superbly crafted controls, graphics and atmosphere... well good luck waiting for that! Because it ain't happening, more's the pity. I'm right with you in wanting such a thing, but this is the real world we live in and money is what makes it goes round. I don't blame Capcom, because what else can they do? They have similar struggles with the Ace Attorney series - the cost of localising them for the West is so high and the expected profits so low, that they only release the big entries of the series now. This infuriates the fans, but we can't expect Capcom to keep doing it whilst making financial losses.

Revelations is the best compromise they can make. The best thng would be to find a good director who could make the most out of that format. The episodic nature of Revelations 2 was promising. They should probably try that again.

Shadow Of the Colossus

Just finished Broken Sword: Director's Cut.

Warthunder, and then whatever it may be.

Broken Sword was ace. George is such a hapless loveable fool, collapsing through the game, never really on top of anything that's going on lol!

He's constantly being confounded by all manner of small and petty people, who obstruct him just because he's got one of those faces that they like to hit. And every time he thinks 'Hah - I don't have to take that from second string jerks like you!' only to find that actually yes he does, because he's eternally at the bottom of life's pecking order.

He's a great hero, I love playing as him :D

Broken Sword is certainly a fantastic series. George is good at what he does but knows how to make people laugh at the same time.
Meanwhile I return to ARK: Survival Evolved so I can eat more dinosaur feces.

Valkyrie Profile for PS1.

Injustice: Gods Among Us - Ultimate Edition.

Finally finished Warhammer: Battle March after putting it off for years. Good game, not so good port.

Warthunder

Alternating between Call of Duty Advance Warfare and Dragon Age Inquisition. Decided to give the latter another go (and as it was a gift, couldn't really tell them to shove off with it... damn family >.<).

I just beat Tales of Xillia 2 the other night, and got all three endings. It's now my favorite game in the Tales series.

Since my last post, I also beat Borderlands, Kirby's Return to Dreamland and Child of Light.

The Talos Principle

Finished Ar Tonelico: Melody Of Elemia. Replaying the game again to get the rest of the endings.

Just finished Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons(360).

Pretty interesting, yet sad game.

Still using the Cd from One Unit Whole Blood which i bought in 1999 :D

Went for another "European Extreme" run in METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater, currently dealing with the Ocelot Unit showing up right after meeting with EVA.

Call of Duty Black Ops III Multiplayer Beta. Pretty much the same as other CoD's... some nice differences, but as it's just a beta just enjoying it for what it is.

metroid fusion

I just finished getting the rest of the endings in Ar Tonelico: Melody Of Elemia. Will likely start on Ar Tonelico II after I calm down some.

Was playing Midnight Club: Lost Angeles(Games on Demand version on the 360), but quit it out of frustration. The game's not bad, I'm just spoiled by the Need for Speed series.

Army of Two: The 40th Day(360)

Kirby Triple Deluxe (3DS)

Metro last light.The game seems to have more sneaking than the first game, or the least that the sneaking is better.The story of Russian nazis is ridiculous.So you get caught by the reicht, and the baby dark one gets caught by th reicht and you, and these Russian nazis are executing anyone who has been touched by these creatures,or the thoughts of these alien creatures mingle with theirs.There seems to be new things included:Night vision goggles for one thing, and you also can modify your weapons to make them better by adding scopes and silencers, but don't do it early on, because right after the botanical gardens area, you lose all your guns and get captured, and are forced to g new guns.ther is also a new feature:You can wipe your mask by pressing lb to get water off.

Oh yeah: Game is still a single player game.

Grand Theft Auto 5

RNGesus hates me with a passion ^^

zelda TP on my recently bought wii

Finished Army of Two: The 40th Day.

Thinking about trying out some tank matches on Warthunder.

theres usable tanks in war thunder now? (havent played it in ages).
anyway, i just arrived at the forest temple in tp, remembered how much i hate it, and stopped.
gonna play shadowgate 64 for a while. the fact im progressing somewhat smoothly with no guides is a testament.

Have Not Really Played Video Games In A Long While, Anyway It's Been Raining (Very Hard) Here All Day So I Dug The Old PS2 And Box of Games Out.

Played GUN For Half An Hour Completed Some Missions Ect, Then Had A Drive/Shoot Around On Grand Theft Auto Vice City For A Couple And Then Completed A Few Levels On Kingdom Hearts II.

Currently playing through Ar Tonelico II: Melody Of Metafalica.

I got Rocket League, LIMBO, Styx: Master Of Shadows, Rain, The Unfinished Swan and Valiant Hearts: The Great War free with PlayStation Plus.

Finished Valiant Hearts: The Great War, which is one of the best games I've ever played.
Rocket League is super fun!
LIMBO has a fantastic art style. Finished that too.
Styx: Master of Shadows is interesting. It's Prince of Persia meets Assassins Creed almost. With a Goblin.
Rain was reasonably boring.
and The Unfinished Swan was an extremely short but fascinating game. Thought I'd say these things. For no reason.
Yeah.

Finished Chromehounds. Good, but not great, mech game. The final mission was pretty anti-climatic, too.

I am playing the Borderlands series.

Characters playing...

Roland - Borderlands

Axton - Borderlands 2

Wilhelm - Borderlands the Pre-Sequel

Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Been playing SSX(2012) and I just finished it. Pretty fun snowboarding game(got a bit frustrating at certain points), despite never playing the other SSX games.

Black Ops 3 beta(xbone).

nekopara on pc

rune factory 4 on handheld

woop

Played Life Is Strange(Xbone) episode 2 and 3. And wow, the end of episode 3 shocked me! Definitely going back to it tomorrow.

Some Warthunder.

Edit: Finished Episode 4. And holy shit, what a twist. Can't wait for the last episode.

Finally I got MGSV to play, and man, it's good.

Played and finished The Executioner on The Evil Within recently. It was pretty cool playing as one of the monsters from the game.

Over-G Fighters

I've been playing Okami HD for the past ~2 weeks, a lovely game, no mistake about it.
I knew it would be aesthetically beautiful and unique, and charming, but the gameplay is also bunches of fun - definitely recommended to anyone on the fence about it.

MGSV GZ and TPP, TPP still downloading so I'm finishing up GZ before the download finishes

I am at disk 4 in lost odyssey.It seems to go by fast if you skip the cutscenes, because golly is there a lot of cutscenes on disk 3.Right now, I also have mass effect, and dead island.

I have lost interest in dead island, and mass effect, but I'm sure il get back to it sooner or later

Huh, Disc 3 of Lost Odyssesy is the only one I actually liked. Lots of drama and action with the team seperated, forcing you not to just use your ultimate team builds all the time etc. I just remember that Disc being the one where stuff actually happened.

Still playing Ar Tonelico II. Over 40 hours in and I haven't reached the first ending yet, but I will soon.

Back to DKC Tropical Freeze. Currently on World 5.

Battlefield Hardline on PS4 and Operation Flashpoint Red River on PS3

Finally finished Over-G Fighters. The last mission was practically impossible(I was on expert, which I kinda regret for playing it on)!

Warthunder


Edit: Right now, I'm going to do a Metal Gear marathon(despite not having Portable Ops and Peace Walker...yet)before I get started on The Phantom Pain.

Starting with Metal Gear(via MGS 3: Subsistence).

Edit 2: Finished Metal Gear(2nd time)2 days ago, and just now finished Metal Gear 2(2nd time). Now, onto Metal Gear Solid :D

Still playing Ar Tonelico II. Over 70 hours in, but I did get one of the endings. Now going for full completion.

Isn't subsistence the game with online mode me the bloopers?

Playing now some metro last light.I am at the swamp and stuck there because I used all my bullets trying to get rid of the enemies, and can't find the stupid gas station.I also spent my cash on strippers, vodka, gambling and loaning someone cash.I even got several lap dances.

Indeed. Sadly, I never got the chance to play it online. MGS4 introduced me to MGO.

Finished MGS. Now, on Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance.

Still playing Ar Tonelico II. Over 70 hours in, but I did get one of the endings. Now going for full completion.

Can I borrow it when you're done? xP

Anyway, I beat Tropical Freeze since my last post.

I'm currently suffering through the abysmal Wii U port of Darksiders 2... It's frozen on me around 7 times so far, and I don't even think I'm halfway in.

Also started Little Big Planet and Kirby Triple Deluxe, but I'm not very far into either one yet.

Heh. Got 3 endings now and started a new playthrough. Got all of the missed talk topics and am currently in Phase 2.

Can I borrow it when you're done? xP

Anyway, I beat Tropical Freeze since my last post.

I'm currently suffering through the abysmal Wii U port of Darksiders 2... It's frozen on me around 7 times so far, and I don't even think I'm halfway in.

Also started Little Big Planet and Kirby Triple Deluxe, but I'm not very far into either one yet.

How is darksiders? On 360, my console recommended me darksiders 2.Also:I played and beat Kirby on the snes.How does the deluxe version differ?

Finished MGS2 yesterday, now on to MGS 3: Subsistence.

Alternating between the following, depending on how I feel at the time...

On PS4:
Watch_Dogs - Had this since release and never sat down and started playing it. Seems okay so far.
Grand Theft Auto V - Got this some time ago, so decided to give it a go. First person view is fun.

On PS3:
Mass Effect - The completionist in me wants to get all the trophies. Still have 5 left to get for ME1 then I'm done.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare - Just for fun... and that I do like the SP campaign for the MW trilogy.
Record of Agarest War - Pretty good so far.
Army of Two - Another trilogy I'm starting from the first. Damn good trilogy... kinda hope that another Army of Two game would be released, but like Alpha Protocol (Which DEMANDS a damn sequel), never happen.
Saints Row 2 - The BEST of the Saints Row games... hope the rumors of a 5th game (and the talk of it going back to a serious-sort of style gameplay etc as Saints Row 2) turn out to be true... IV kinda killed the series...

How is darksiders? On 360, my console recommended me darksiders 2.Also:I played and beat Kirby on the snes.How does the deluxe version differ?

The first Darksiders is good, imagine 3D Zelda combined with a violent comic book art style. It's pretty cheap too. I recommend it.
The second game is also good so far, but the Wii U version is terrible. I've heard the PS3 version is the best.

The SNES Kirby Super Star had a remake with a few more game modes on the DS. I've only played the SNES version, myself.
Kirby Triple Deluxe is a different game for the 3DS. It's pretty good so far.

Finished MGS 3 last night. Next is MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots. :]

Rambo: The Video Game

Really bad game.

Rambo: The Video Game
Really bad game.
You should play the new Godzilla.
Really, really, bad game.

Until Dawn

Finished MGS4. I'll get started on MGS: Portable Ops later.

Finished MGS4. I'll get started on MGS: Portable Ops later.

You must be a master at these Metal Gear Solid games, dood.

Still playin Ar Tonelico II on my second playthrough going for the last ending. Currently at Phase 4.

Speaking of Metal Gear, I started MGS2 the other day, which is my first time ever touching the series. I quite like it so far.

Also borrowed Super Mario 3D World.

Still in the middle of Kirby Triple Deluxe and Little Big Planet.

You must be a master at these Metal Gear Solid games, dood.

Still playin Ar Tonelico II on my second playthrough going for the last ending. Currently at Phase 4.

Heh, nah, I'd like to think of myself as "good but not great". If I was a master, I'd play the previous installments on the hardest difficulty, which I wouldn't do(I did play MGS4 on a hard difficulty and that was it).

Getting started on MGS: Portable Ops for the first time.

Doing my best to achieve the platinum trophy in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ;)

Finished MGS: Portable Ops. Very good. I can especially see where the concept of recruiting guards came from(you can do it in The Phantom Pain, via the fulton system, and it can be done in Peace Walker, I believe). And my codename is Kerotan (http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Codename_%28gameplay%29), which apparently means I suck. :p

Peace Walker will be later.

I'm surprised no one is playing that new Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX (that isn't really new.) That said, I am.

Borrowed Mario 3D world and plowed through it, even beat Champion's Road after around 200 tries. :')

Back to MGS2 now.

Edit: Just beat MGS2. It was awesome.
I'll be starting MGS3 tomorrow, and Peace Walker after that. I'll be getting MGS5 along with a PS4 next week, so I'll be trying to beat those two before I get it.

I Am Bread

Still on Peace Walker. I'm really, really liking it, especially the Mother Base aspect, researching weapons and equipment, and capturing vehicles as your own. This is also probably the longest Metal Gear game I've ever played.

Fully beat Ar Tonelico II. Just been alternating between Chocobo Racing and Crash Tag Team Racing. Dunno what I'm doin next.

ARK: Survival Evolved

Back in Bloodborne, hiring out my sword arm on the mid to late game bosses. Level 70 seems to get a lot of trafffic on basically every boss after Rom, so I'm leaving the character at that level and roaming the land fighting for pay, as any good mercenary should!

Devoted myself to Mass Effect... to try and get the Asari Ally Trophy and Hardcore Trophy (Hopefully the Extreme Power Gamer Trophy as well, but we'll see) before this Friday...

Still on Peace Walker. I'm really, really liking it, especially the Mother Base aspect, researching weapons and equipment, and capturing vehicles as your own. This is also probably the longest Metal Gear game I've ever played.

I'm playing Peace Walker too. :P
I'm trying to beat it before I move on to Ground Zeroes and 5.

PayDay 2, Darkest Dungeon & Rollercoaster Tycoon (I will never get bored of this Game)

Still on Peace Walker. I quote-unquote "finished it", but I'm currently the 5th chapter, 'Outer Heaven'. Rather surprised that it doesn't technically end.

Dungeon Fighter Online. A beat em up MMO that heavily references other beat em ups or games and anime from the 70s - 90s. And some Path of Exile on the side.

Quadrant

I beat Peace Walker and Ground Zeroes just now. Was going to start MGS5 but have to wait for a massive update... Tomorrow I guess.

Finished Chapter 5 on Peace Walker yesterday. Right now, I'm trying to S-rank the extra ops.

SOMA

Found out I had Battlefield 3 on my Origin account and started the campaign. Yes, the campaign. I don't like multiplayer FPS with vehicles on large maps. :|

Found out I had Battlefield 3 on my Origin account and started the campaign. Yes, the campaign. I don't like multiplayer FPS with vehicles on large maps. :|

Nothing wrong with playing the SP campaign of games like Battlefield and Call of Duty, I play them myself and have far more fun with the SP than MP.

Currently, on the final stretch of my Hardcore playthrough of Mass Effect. Earned 3 trophies and almost at my 4th.

I only ever play Call of Duty: World at War nowawadays, mainly because of the easyish modding and custom zombies.

I just started Ark: Survival Evolved.
Died 5 times in the first 2 hours that I played.
Really fun so far. Liking it better than The Forest ( on account it has dinosaurs ).

It was on sale over at Humble Bundle. With the conversion from USD to CDN, it was still cheaper than buying it outright in CDN currency. :smrt:

Dead Space

Dungeons of Dredmor - "After all this time?" "Always."



Oh Canada, you're the Gift that keeps on giving.

You finally scavenged enough money for ARK, then, Sparky. Good.
Spawn down South. You won't get raped down there.

Found out I had Battlefield 3 on my Origin account and started the campaign. Yes, the campaign. I don't like multiplayer FPS with vehicles on large maps. :|

That's too bad. You're missing out on the mayhem on those 64 player servers. :)


Finally finished Peace Walker. I managed to S rank all the missions and man, was it a grind(and at times, it was a frustrating one). Great game, nevertheless.

I'll be listening to Paz's tapes and the secret tape tomorrow(already listened to Strangelove's tapes), and I'll be fully done. I'll be taking a bit of a break from this Metal Gear marathon of mine.

That's too bad. You're missing out on the mayhem on those 64 player servers. :)

That's Battlefield 4 which has the 64 player servers, not Battlefield 3. Loved the Gulf of Oman map in Battlefield 3... fun times.

Currently playing Chronicle Mode of Samurai Warriors 4.

You finally scavenged enough money for ARK, then, Sparky. Good.
Spawn down South. You won't get raped down there.

:laugh: That's where I did spawn. The same raptor got me 3 times, eh?
South-East.

That's Battlefield 4 which has the 64 player servers, not Battlefield 3. Loved the Gulf of Oman map in Battlefield 3... fun times.

Currently playing Chronicle Mode of Samurai Warriors 4.

Oops, my mistake. I haven't played enough of BF 3, I thought BF 3 was capable of that, silly me.

Stranded Deep

The developers are getting lazy...

Oops, my mistake. I haven't played enough of BF 3, I thought BF 3 was capable of that, silly me.

That's ok. Only the PS4 and Xbox One can have 64 players in a match (probably PC as well, but not 100% sure on that... haven't played Battlefield 4 MP in ages), not PS3 or Xbox 360.

Gone back to the campaign in GTAV.

Going to try and 100% MGS V: Ground Zeroes.

Just finished the new amazing horror game SOMA.
What an ending!

100%ed Ground Zeroes and got the rest of the achievements I didn't get. I'll get started a bit on The Phantom Pain, and then I'll have to see if my Gronund Zeroes save can be transferred. :)

Edit: Found out that I needed to uninstall and reinstall GZs to get the "Save Data Upload to appear". Now, I can safely transfer my stuff to The Phantom Pain.

Still playing Borderlands 1, I am avoiding the boss battle on the final level and just having a good time killing skags, psychos, bandits ect.

Still playing Borderlands 1, I am avoiding the boss battle on the final level and just having a good time killing skags, psychos, bandits ect.

Strangely, GOTY edition on Steam is more than Borderlands 2 GOTY!
When they were both on sale, I had to buy 2 before I could buy 1.

I started both, but have not completed any yet.
It is a lot of fun going around killing.

I even played them on Xbox 360.
Not so fun when some friends-of-friends show up who have max stats and use dupe tricks to get millions of dollars.
They've played it to death, so when they play with us who have never played it all the way the through, they treat it like a speed-run on youtube.

Strangely, GOTY edition on Steam is more than Borderlands 2 GOTY!
When they were both on sale, I had to buy 2 before I could buy 1.

I started both, but have not completed any yet.
It is a lot of fun going around killing.

I even played them on Xbox 360.
Not so fun when some friends-of-friends show up who have max stats and use dupe tricks to get millions of dollars.
They've played it to death, so when they play with us who have never played it all the way the through, they treat it like a speed-run on youtube.

I bought my games individually at Wal-Mart when they came down in price.

I have been to the end of BL 1 before but never beat the Vault boss. As for BL 2 I am about 3/4 into it and BL-TPS I've only just begun.

My platform is Sony PS3.
I have accrued $9,999,999 honestly and have collected a lot of cool weapons and class mods. I have gotten to where I can take down most of the enemies fairly quickly except for the Badass Guardians and of coarse the a fore mentioned Vault boss.

So played an hour of the Battlefront Beta... both modes. At this stage, not really impressed with it. Graphically it does look good but... meh... As there is no SP Campaign for this, I'll give it a miss (Til it's in a markdown bin for $10)... Judging solely from what I've played, the Force is NOT with this...

Playing Transformers Devastation instead. Finally a decent G1 TF game.

I'm actually trying to 100% Crash Tag Team Racing. Something I never had any desire to do before, although I really enjoy the gimmicks and stuff, but I am going for it this time.

Still playing Borderlands 1, I am avoiding the boss battle on the final level and just having a good time killing skags, psychos, bandits ect.

No DLCs ?

Zombie Island of Dr Ned is probably the most Fun i have had in the Borderlands Franchise, well worth the asking Price

I actually fully beat Crash Tag Team Racing about 20 minutes ago. The only reward for doing that is seeing Crash use his foot on his fur like a dog would with its paw if you go to the Character select screen when starting up a race. Still humorous.

Transformers: Devastation

This.Game.
Dayum.Sun.

Skylanders Superchargers

MGS5, Rock Band 4 and Disgaea 5, doods.

Kirby Mass Attack - what an awesome game!

Until Dawn.

So far, so good. I'd heard the cast were a bunch of jerks, but so far the only one I don't like much is Emily. Everyone else is alright, so long as you take them for the kind of people they are. Emily though... Christ!

Shoppe Keep

The Last Of Us

Playin a new playthrough of Suikoden V for the first time in a long time. I enjoy makin fun of a certain someone in the game. Heh heh...

Been playing The Phantom Pain and nothing else. I'm really enjoying it! :D

Syndicate on PS3.

The Pinball Arcade (Elvira's Scared Stiff Table is my favourite), Toonstruck, and some Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete.

Well, that's Until Dawn done and dusted - another Platinum for the pile. Got to love adventure games and their easy Platinum Trophy lists :D

Tomb Raider (2013)

Orcs Must Die! 2

Video Game: The Game

Life Is Strange: Episode 5

Edit: Finished it. A little disappointed how short it was, but it was great game, nonetheless.

I was highly disappointed with both endings of Life Is Strange. What a shame.

Cast of the Seven Godsends

MGS V. finally finished developing the last few items today, but I've 100% completion and have gone thru the story probably 4 times... so I'm not sure what I'm going to do until Fallout 4 comes out.

Playing the PS1 version of Frogger. I'll likely make an attempt to beat the one level I never was able to beat, which is the last cactus level. I'll first need to get there...

Played Payday 2 for about ten minutes last night.

Games I am playing:
-Banjo-Tooie (Rare Replay)
-Sunset Overdrive
-Yoshi's Woolly World

Played Payday 2 for about ten minutes last night.

Didn't like it ?

Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Huge improvement over Unity... Ubisoft Quebec did a damn good job with this one and unlike with Unity (which I never got to like... just... yeah), liked this one right from the start.The combat mechanics work really well, character designs fit really well with the Industrial Revolution in England and the scenery fits as well. Soundtrack is just as good and the VA's fit their characters well. Good purchase this was.

Played Payday 2 for about ten minutes last night.

Didn't like it ?

Not really. It's GTA with less stuff*. My friends told me to play it, so I bought it. Money well spent.

Still grinding away at Disgaea 5. Got a few characters in the level 1000 range so far. Trying to boost some OP weapons and equipment to make the training a bit quicker.
Also just beat Kirby Triple Deluxe recently.

Still on The Phantom Pain.

Got through the missions where I had to find the cure for that disease. The ones that weren't symptomatic survived, thankfully, but I'm fucking pissed(and a bit disheartened)that I lost so much of my staff, including some good ones. My levels(except for security, I'm not focusing on that yet since I'm not open for invasion)are at reduced, yet good levels, but the intel team is at 28, sadly. Time to do some headhunting. :/

Fran Bow

I'm currently playing: LBX: Little Battlers Experience, Monster Racers, and my newest game I'm addicted to is Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars.

Finally finished MGS V, and wow what a game. Despite mission 45 being so damn frustrating(rage inducing even, because of those damn sniping tanks), this was a nice conclusion. Now to 100% it, and maybe finally get my FOB ready and try out MGO later.

Edit: I also have to say, this is probably the first video game I've ever played that actually...pained me, I guess you could say. After mission 45 ended, I mean. I won't spoil it though, but once you finish it, and hear that song, it's just...painful. :(

Anno 2205

Working on my Black Mage Relic Weapon in Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn. Unlocked the Lilith Rod the other day and spending time farming 'light' to transform it to the Lilith Rod Zeta.

Fallout 4
So freaking excited to play this!

Finally 100 percented MGS V(around early afternoon) and I fortified my FOB. Right now, I'm making a nuke and then dispose of it to get the last two achievments. Going to give MGO a shot.

Edit: Hmmm, may not be able to, keep getting the message "Disconnected from session". Guess I'll have to try it later.

Warthunder

Edit: Going to play Quake 4(360). I never finished it, but I remember playing it plenty of times when it came out.

Ploughing through Fallout 4 and... bah!

I guess its mindlessly enjoyable exploration fun in the way Bethesda games always are, but so far it feels even less substantial than Skyrim and Fallout 3. Bethesda just cannot write good quests and dialogue, nor do they seem to care about it. I wasn't a big fan at all of FO3, but it had its moments. So far, this hasn't had any.

Playing Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Yes I know I should be playing Black Ops III, but I don't have an Xbox One or a computer high-end enough to play it.
I'm going to try to play all of the Call of Duty games starting with... Call of Duty, then United Offensive, and then so on. I need to get away from this-
futuristic bullshit just for one second. At least Black Ops II has levels set in the 1980s.

I haven't played Dota 2 in months. I'm playing Nintendo games now. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and Bayonetta 2.

I haven't played Dota 2 in months. I'm playing Nintendo games now. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and Bayonetta 2.

I don't think those are Nintendo games, unless you mean published by.

Fallout 4.
I'm liking it. But I'm not.
It's good, but Bethesda seems to've let themselves down a bit...

2 days ago, I tried out MGO, and...the netcode is garbage. Twice, I warped to someone doing CQC throws on me, and that was enough to make me rage quit. Until it's better, fuck MGO.

Finished Quake 4. A shame there was no follow-up to it since it ended on a sequel hook. It was pretty fun.

Warthunder, and tomorrow, I'll try to finish Earth Defense Force: 2017. Been trying to get rid of some backlog(Quake 4 being one of them).

Started the Wii version of Rodea Sky Soldier and Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky for PSP.

Just recently beat mission 41 on MGS5 too.

Team Fortress 2

Hearing the squeals of anguish from squeakers in the Gun Game MP for CoD Black Ops III for now following with so called 'Gun Game Etiquette'... because I'm using the knife far more than I should. heh heh heh

Also fired up my Wii U for the first time in a while for some Super Smash Bros.

Finished EDF: 2017.

I also forgot to mention that I also got started on Ace Combat: Assault Horizon on the Ace difficulty 3 days ago, so I'll get back to that right now.

Anno 2205

It is not worth �50.

Just did mission 46 of MGS5. Just... Wow. Did not see that coming.

Got tired of dying in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon on Ace, so I pretty much quit it. I'd be fine with having no health regeneration if it wasn't on the hardest difficulty.

Warthunder and then I'll try out some of free weekend games.

Paint the Town Red

I finished Cherry Tree High I! My! Girls! last week. I wouldn't recommend it unless you really like the characters from Cherry Tree High Comedy Club. Without the gameplay of the first game, I found I My Girls to be very boring.

I'm playing Type:Rider and it's very cute. It's neat to learn about the history of fonts.

Recap from previous post:

Finished the SP of Black Ops III and feel rather... well, cheated. It was (Only read spoiler IF you want to know):

The usual sci fi schtick of your character suffering horrendous injuries and being put into a coma for medical surgery. You wake up, go about the rest of the game in usual CoD manner... only to find at the end, that what you just spent the last hour or so of playing is nothing but a drug induced dream and that your character died on the operating table.

Due to the, imo, piss poor SP campaign, this was a big let down... Hell, I had far more fun playing CoD Ghosts, Advance Warfare and the entire Modern Warfare Trilogy (Both SP and MP... fuck off with the damn Zombie bs) than Black Ops III. Return to store of purchase.

Super Smash Bros.. well, I can see how fun a game like that could be with friends around and such, but it's not my type of game (not really a fan of beat 'em ups in general), so this is a return to store purchase.

Currently:

Back to Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn and Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition on PS4

Played Overlord(360)for the 2nd time. I did a Zero Corruption playthrough just so it's done and out of the way. I'm going to try a Full Corruption playthrough since I failed to get full corruption the first time I played this. I'll then get started on the expansion pack(I have a save on it, but never actually made progress).

shadowgate 64 and conker BFD

Played Overlord(360)for the 2nd time. I did a Zero Corruption playthrough just so it's done and out of the way. I'm going to try a Full Corruption playthrough since I failed to get full corruption the first time I played this. I'll then get started on the expansion pack(I have a save on it, but never actually made progress).

Overlord is a blast, really enjoyed playing it on 360. Got the Overlord Raising Hell edition on PS3 (1st game with the expansion) and loving it. Overlord II is good... just expands on the first, but still fun. Overlord Dark Legend on Wii was... meh...

Currently playing The Lego Movie The Videogame on Wii U. Pretty fun game, but not the best...

Wolfenstein - PlayStation 3

Lef fer def too. If you want to play custom maps via Steam, hmu. I don't really dig the standard maps much anymore.

Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky for PSP. Currently on chapter 2.

Star Wars Battlefront. Not bad so far...

Finally wrenched the Platinum Trophy from Fallout 4's vice like grip. Easy list except for the outrageous 'Benevolent Leader' trophy. That one will haunt my nightmares for months to come...

Overall, it wasn't bad actually. Nowhere near as good as New Vegas, but in moving closer to a Bioware style game, it means a hell of a lot more to me than Fallout 3 ever did. And incredibly, the main plot is actually not too bad at times. Might sound like a backhanded compliment, but given how awful the main story usually is in Bethesda games, this was a HUGE step in the right direction. Decent companions for the most part, but still needs more work in that department.

But yeah, the game was a lot better than I thought it would be for sure.

Fully finished Overlord. Now, onto Overlord 2.

Bloodborne: The Old Hunter Expansion. Loved the vanilla, loving this expansion.

Donkey Kong 64 lol

Destiny. Without PS+. Don't ask.

Fallout 4...but I'm already getting burnt out after a couple days of playing.

Poop in a bucket, Star Wars: Battlefront is so immersive!

Well... after playing Battlefront... rather disappointed. For the price tag of $100 AUSD, there is a severe lack of content, with the rest locked behind the paywall of a season pass. Granted if you're a Star Wars fan, you'll love this but for me... Guess I've become too disillusioned with the franchise (That or my hatred of anything Disney is weighing in)... Yeah, this is a return to store deal.

Did play some of the Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Siege Open Beta, a game I've been waiting for... well...

Went in, hoping for something good. Finding game... disconnected from lobby. Annoyed, tried again. Same thing happened. Tried third time, got into a game. Got gunned down by teammates. Slightly miffed... joined another game. Gunned down due to 'friendly fire' and told "You suck!" Deleted Open Beta, cancelled preorder.

Have to wonder... will The Division and Ghost Recon Wildlands be the same next year?

Finally finished Overlord 2. I was going to get back to Fallout 3 via Xbone(have some quests I need to do)and then get started on Fallout 4, but I have a little cousin playing on my Xbone, so I'll be on my PS2. :P

Edit: Nvm, he just got done.

recently bought shogun TW, medieval TW and rome TW. been having a blast with shogun. for like the 4th time (ive bought the game 4 times through the years).

seriously considering buying shogun 2. the collection is extremely cheap now, but i might need the money later

Bloodborne

Finished the Old Hunters dlc for Bloodborne. Pretty good, but a little uneven. Has some great moments, and at least 3 of the boss fights are very good. Overall, I'd say it was better than the main game, but I was never as wild about BB as the Souls games. They are getting there slowly in terms of depth of content, with the new covenants and weapons, but its very late to be introducing them now.

Still, its worth getting just for the Ludwig boss fight. Best fight in the whole game IMO.

Starting inFAMOUS First Light... Played Second Son and did enjoy it and finally got this.

Playing Medal of Honor: Frontline.

Xenoblade Chronicles X. Loving it so far. It may be the most complicated JRPG I've ever played.

Dragon Quest Heroes

Rise of the Tomb Raider, Fallout 4, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Assassins Creed Syndicate

Finished First Light and enjoyed it. Gone back to Assassin's Creed Syndicate... playing this in installments so as not to rush all the way through. Not saying I don't like it (to me, it's one of the best AC games... with Black Flag in second place), but want to savor the experience.

ArmA 3: Exile Mod

Can't wait till I open my presents this year.Got Diablo 3 and mass effect 2 on the way.I am really nervous about mass effect 2, because I have seen mixed criticisms.Some harp about how it's not an rpg and got rid of exploring planets and now you just scan planets and get materials and sometimes find a mission.

I like the exploration part of the first game, but with better inventory please? And a better more useful rpg skill system with more choices.

I am also nervous because I asked for the PS3 ultimate version with the expansions, and I doubt I will get it.

I am also nervous about Diablo and excited, because I enjoyed the demo quite a bit and really wanted to buy it months ago.

I also have to find a way to get kotor to work on my pc, because it crashes at the beginning of the game after the second cutscene in game.

I also have baldurs gate 1 and 2 to beat.I actually was enjoying baldurs gate, but playing it blind is a mistake since I have no idea what I'm doing.

Finally finished Bloodborne + The Old Hunters.

Despite moments of...frustration(let's put it that way :p ), this was a great Souls-like game. My only complaints is the camera sometimes messing you up in combat, and the expansion having a difficulty spike at the fishing village.

Samurai Warriors 3: Empires

Eh. Bloodborne is probably my Game of the Year, but only because this year has (once again) been awful. BB was a huge disappointment IMO, but I guess it wasn't actively 'bad' either.

Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes, Phantom Pain!

My game of the year, for every year ever, literally every year ever, and for the rest of time, is Ecco The Dolphin, straight up. Game of the Year 2015?, Ecco The Dolphin.

This year ? It's a toss up between Ori and the Blind Forest, Dying Light, Undertale & Rocket League.

This year ? It's a toss up between Ori and the Blind Forest, Dying Light, Undertale & Rocket League.

+1

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is my personal GOTY. After the abysmal Assassin's Creed Unity then the issues with Rainbow Six Siege (online only, no SP, bad servers (frequent timeouts) etc), ACS wins hands down for myself. Love the characters, the combat system works really well, the plot with all the side stories... all of it is great. Even completing a side mission and hearing the locals (one intoxicated individual singing in a cockney accent 'Pop goes the weasel') converse with each other... This is my personal favorite AC game, followed by Black Flag.

Speaking ACS... playing that now and working on the Charles Dickens story arc.

Finished the last free scenario on Samurai Warriors 3: Empires and, as I feared, the scenario where you can be a ruler using a custom officer(basically, the Divided Land scenario from SW2: Empires)is not in the game. Not sure if it's DLC or it was just not implemented. Either way, it's a shame, because it adds plenty of replay value, imo. This is the only Empires entry I find disappointing because of that.

Some Warthunder, and then gonna play whatever.

Transformers Devastation

Just finished Killer is Dead, gonna play Uncharted 2 tomorrow.

Mucking about with Fallout 4 mainly waiting for the creation kit. Getting back into ESO again for some reason.

I probably shouldn't decide on a GOTY for me since I only have five games from 2015, but it's a toss-up between MGS5 and Xenoblade Chronicles X, but I'm still in the middle of the latter.

As for the best games I've played in 2015, they are Deus Ex Human Revolution, Alice Madness Returns, Tales of Xillia 2, Shining Force EXA and Super Mario 3D World.

Hey, don't worry about it - I only have about 5 games from this year too! Naming a GotY these days, increasingly feels like a 'least worst game of the year' lol! The industry really needs to take a good hard look at how its making AAA games these days IMO.

I only purchased 4 new games this year... and of what I purchased, ASC is my personal GOTY.

I don't know why, but GOTY never meant anything to me.

Finished Rise of the Tomb Raider and 100%ed it. Just as good as the original reboot, imo. :)

Some Warthunder and I'll get started on Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends: Complete Edition.