[Aptorian]

I am currently switching back and forth between Battle Block Theater and Rogue Legacy.

I don't know why I waited so long to buy Battle Block Theater. It's made by Behemoth, the same guys who made Castle Crashers. Which means it's fantastic. This time around instead of focusing on the arcade beat'em'up type of gameplay, it's about level progression and platforming. The artstyle, narrative, humor and gameplay is so freaking polished its hard to explain with out playing it yourself. I watched reviews of it and I thought it looked stupid but it's very satisfying to play.

I'd advice anyone to pick Battle Block Theater and Castele Crashers up while they are on sale.

Don't know why I got back into Rogue Legacy. I already played through the whole thing 3 times levelling my character up to the absolute max, but the gameplay is just so good. After 70 hours my hands practically just work on muscle memory, dodging and jumping between projectiles and enemies. I think I am going to try and get all the steam achievements again now that they added new bosses and character traits.

[Defiance]

Metro 2033. The gameplay/delivery of story is middling, but god damn this game bleeds atmosphere. I'd love to see an open world, Fallout-esque game that pushed more toward this kind of setting.

Papers, Please. Really fun, I play it in about 30 minute sessions though because any longer and I usually start making lots of mistakes.

Borderlands 2 with the girlfriend. God damn I love this game. Have to say though, not too excited about the upcoming pre-sequel. Maybe it'll be awesome, but Handsome Jack was so well written that I fear going into his past is going to be disappointing. Plus the whole air meter seems like a complete gimmick. Either it's going to be an obnoxious hindrance where you have to constantly scrounge for air, or it's going to be of so little consequence that it shouldn't even be there in the first place. I could be wrong, but seriously, in a series that has eliminated annoying stuff like fall damage, is a breath meter really necessary?

I'll probably be moving on to XCOM: Enemy Unknown after I finish up Metro.


EDIT: Finished Metro 2033. I found it to be...mediocre. There was some interesting stuff in the plot - what's up with the Dark Ones, the Anomaly - but overall I found it to be pretty dry. Having Artyom be entirely silent in gameplay segments was really stupid, I hate silent protagonists. It makes it all the more jarring considering he narrates the loading segments. They have a voice actor for him, so why the hell is there no dialogue?

Like I said earlier, I love the atmosphere of the Metro tunnels. But most of the game works against this atmosphere. The AI was pretty bad, the gunplay wasn't great, and I didn't feel any connection with the plot. So I need to bomb the Dark Ones. Why? Okay, they're driving people crazy, but this is only brought up at the start of the game and you never really see the effects of this for yourself. I had no real interest in how things were going to resolve.

Fuck the biomass blob things. That segment was awful. In fact, I thought the final 1/3rd of the game was pretty weak.

If Metro: Last Light can provide a better narrative and clean up the gameplay, it'll be great. Plus I'd like to spend a bit more time at the different Metro stations.

This post has been edited by Defiance: 25 June 2014 - 03:47 PM

[Gabriel Chase]

[tiam]

My birthday this week just gone. A good haul

Watch Dogs
Dark Souls 2
Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen

Not sure what to play first. Maybe DS 2

[Defiance]

I've really been wanting to check out Dragon's Dogma. What I've heard sounds really cool.

Been playing lots of Mobas lately, mainly Heroes of the Storm alpha and League of Legends. Probably going to dabble in Dota 2 a little bit as well. As someone who isn't a fan of PvP games, I actually enjoy these quite a bit. If only the communities weren't complete shit (HotS is actually pretty good right now, but I'm wagering it'll go downhill once it's officially released).

[Aptorian]

Just finished Shovel Knight.

It's an amazing tribute to the best parts of NES platform games. I thoroughly recommend this game to anyone who remembers the old days of Megaman, Mario, Castlevania, etc. with fondness. In fact if I had to slap a sticker on it, I would call it Megaman in a medieval setting.

It sticks to the 8 bit limitations of the bygone era but 30 years of experience means that much of the old NES bullshit is ironed out of the game. The game is challenging but rarely frustrating in that cheap "Nintendo Hard" kind of fashion. The game is beautifully designed, the music is awesome and the story is great.

Definitely one of the best games released this year.

Defiance, on 11 July 2014 - 08:58 AM, said:

I've really been wanting to check out Dragon's Dogma. What I've heard sounds really cool.

I've put somewhere between 10 and 20 hours into Dragons Dogma. It is really good but also really japanese at times. It mixes Skyrim with... Demon's souls, maybe? Very satisfying combat but a strange levelling system and the difficulty is impossible at times.

This post has been edited by Apt Hoc: 18 July 2014 - 02:42 PM

[Traveller]

Is Dark Arisen an entirely new sequel, or the original game with added areas and skills?

[Aptorian]

The later. I never played far enough in but apparently it's more content for free. I got it via PS+ which was pretty awesome.

[Traveller]

I played through DD on xbox I think, and pretty much finished it before something better got my attention.

I haven't been on the xbox for months now though, I cancelled my account and stick to ps3, so if I get it I'd have to start from scratch I guess?

Not a bad thing maybe, I remember the landscapes being really nicely done and the combat quite fun, but the missions out of the city required a long walk a lot of the time. I might have a look though.

[Defiance]

Trialing FF14, or at least trying to. Was going great yesterday, but today my connection is absolute shit. I can connect to the game for a short period of time, but even when I'm on doing anything is impossible. I checked for issues server-side but everything seems to be running just fine there. Reset router, checked firewall settings, the whole nine yards on my side, still no fix. Went to Google and apparently one problem is that some ISPs will classify the game's servers as P2P and throttle the shit out of the connection. Called my ISP to see if they've started throttling anything, and they tried to feed me the hilarious lie that they never throttle anything.

Hopefully it's just some random issue that works itself out in the next day or two. Going to continue troubleshooting in the meantime.

[Obdigore]

Lord Gator, on 03 August 2014 - 11:07 PM, said:

What is throttling?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q...+regards+to+ISP

[Defiance]

PC. The online is cross-platform though, so PS3, PS4, and PC players all play together.

FF4 is great. They released an updated version for the DS awhile back, upgrading graphics, adding some cutscenes, and increasing the difficulty. It's actually one of my favorite Final Fantasy games.

[Obdigore]

4 and 6 are easily the best Final Fantasy games.

[Gothos]

8 > *

[Defiance]

Obdigore, on 07 August 2014 - 10:00 AM, said:

4 and 6 are easily the best Final Fantasy games.

Heh, those are my favorite two as well, with 6 coming in first.

[MTS]

After speaking with a friends about Skyrim I unwisely decided to get back into it. After completing the main game again I bought the Legendary Edition and am now spending most of my spare time exploring the DLCs and happily modding Skyrim into oblivion (so to speak).

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Don't have much time to game with the baby and all, but I got a ps4 for my first Father's Day. I just beat infamous. It was...ok. It looked nice, and had some fun gameplay, but there was nothing innovative about it. I mostly wanted it because it is set in Seattle, which turned out to be more of a suggestion of Seattle. It was fine, but not worth 60$.

I just cracked into black flag. It seems like it will be good, but I am itching to skip the AC stuff and get into pirating. Also, fuck every part of every AC game where you have to leave the animus. I wish this was just a pure pirate game, not AC pirates.

Some of the indies are neat, especially resogun. I am looking forward to see the games they make as developers learn the console better.

[Traveller]

I still put Black Flag on every now and then purely for a bit of pirating. The map is almost full but I've hardly touched the missions. If the AC bits were ditched in favour of a Sid Meier's Pirates! approach to trade and fleet building, and there was more 'empty sea' to traverse it would be amazing.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 14 August 2014 - 06:50 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

Recently (ie before I went on holiday) started playing Dragon Age: Origins on my XBox. Pretty good stuff so far, though the non speaking main character annoys me for some reason (finished another run of the Mass Effect games before so maybe that's why.) Not that far into it - just started out with that witch girl (Morrigan?) And the last Grey Warden (or whatever the name is) and am in a little village.

Any tips?

[Gothos]

Take every item you see, talk to everyone you can. Roll mage and wtfpwn everything in your path. Or roll rogue and do the Cunning focused built to also wtfpwn everything in your path.