[Bennett]

[Mikey]

[Mr Mustache]

The water cannon is great, Mario Sunshine is great, better than Mario Galaxy. Probably my favorite game to run around in.
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[SuperWes]

Sunshine is way better than Galaxy. The tedious parts make it worse than 64, but the best parts are definitely the pinnacle of the 3D Marios.

Anyway, lately I've been playing a lot of League of Legends both at work and at home. I didn't really know much about it until I started interviewing for Riot, but now I can't stop playing. It's great! I don't generally like PC Games or multiplayer games, but LoL has me thinking I probably missed a lot of good stuff. If you're on there, my name's SuperWes. Friend me up!

-Wes
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[Bennett]

[Mikey]

Oh, I'd say I'm in that first category as well, I generally tend to remember parts that make me smile/laugh/feel wonder/go AWESOME more than anything else which probably makes me seem easily impressed. But at the same time maybe I need a more favorable higher peak/trough ratio than you do.

[Rud31]

[diplo]

I'd be pretty happy with a game built around the FLUDD's rocket expansion. I can't think of too many other games that match the spatial and perspectival thrill of flying a hundred feet up into the air and then landing exactly on a tightrope or slim beam.

[Moogs]

I was waiting for a "NEW PLAY CONTROL" version of Sunshine.

[Tlon]

Started Gears of War 2. While Prototyple gives you pretty much unlimited power, GoW limits you to shooting and taking cover and stuff like that, and thus feels much better.

Stupid sentences aside, I think I messed up. I heard the difficulty was balanced better, so I played on Normal. I'm not dying at all, though. I'm only in the underground Metroid Prime bit - does it get harder, or should I try it on Hardcore? I died about 15 times during each encounter in the first one.
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[ArOne]

Yeah, I remember GoW2 being a lot more forgiveable going in. There are a few points that choked me up abit but but in long run, it felt smoother and easier.

Lately I've been playing Wild Arms XF on my psp and has managed to be a worthy purchase of the PSN. Almost all the story related battles have a good context behind them and have you accomploshing a specific goal outside of just slaughtering the field. Alot of the class based abilities have specific uses like one ability that does more damage the higher an enemy is to you or being able to switch places and take an ally's damage if that unit is in an adjacent hex. Many of the choices feel weighty and tactical as opposed to Disgaea's method of having numbers butt heads.
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[Ghost Dinosaur]

i would definitely say yes to upping it to hardcore if the not dying is bothering you. pretty sure even on a name to name equivalence, gears 2 is easier than 1.

[Tlon]

I played Gears 1 on Hardcore, and thought I was dying just a bit too much because I was soloing it.
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[Levi]

[Bennett]

[Rud31]

the only bad part of Sunshine is "ferris wheel".
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[Jujyfruits]

I got to the ending of SMT: Nocturne but i'm still not ready to fight Lucifer so I'll have to grind some and get a couple of new, better demons.
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[glossolalia]

i don't remember enjoying much about mario sunshine besides the manta ray level and the rocket attachment. the switch to only being able to do the selected mission, and always dying if you failed it, irritated me at the time. and the swimming was terrible, more like something out of an obscure psx pseudo-sim than what'd make sense in a 3d mario game. but now i want to give it another shot.

[negativedge]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[diplo]

Swimming in Sunshine is pretty unenjoyable, at least when you're trying to do stuff. I was tackling the challenge a month or so ago where you need to get the red coins around the reef. The combination of the mobile red coins being able to disappear into the ground (and reappear somewhere else) and the plodding swimming physics made it maddening to a degree that kind of shocked me.

[Mr. Mechanical]

Any time you need to do something while swimming you should be using that nozzle that lets you zip around the water like a motor boat.
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[diplo]

It's area-/mission-specific and isn't unlocked until you get a certain amount of stars.

[Tlon]

Played more Gears 2, this time on Hardcore. Its so smooth it feels like you're barely doing anything - the same feeling Bayonetta has. I love the rockworms. So gamey.
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[Iammadmak]

I'm enjoying Deus Ex 3. I'm trying to stay out of the dedicated thread to prevent spoilers. I am however enjoying the tiny references to the first game, such as comments about use of the bathrooms.

[remote]

I like that you can find little radios playing music from the original game, too.
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[boojiboy7]

Honestly, I am kinda finding the whole HEY REMEMBER THAT GAME YOU REALLY LIKED vibe of the new one a bit annoying. THe new one is still a good game so far, but this is just a pretty lazy attempt to engender good feelings.

[radish]

I played the demo for WH40k Space Marine last night.
It's actually pretty great!

I'll probably pick it up at some point.

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Finally been working my way through DMC3 Special for the first time. On Easy, to get the sights and sounds before I tackle it seriously.

I still wish you could equip more than two guns/arms at a time and switch styles with the D-pad, but it feels a lot less limited now that I've opened up the movesets. So far I've only been using Swordmaster, and it's going to be difficult to motivate myself to use anything else. Since you could link any of their moves together, the utility of every style in DMC4 was greatly expanded, and you always had all their tools available. In 3, you have to pick one and stick with it. Enemies could use more variety: there's far too many variations on the grim reapers. And I haven't seen any of them perform cooperative attacks, like in DMC4. At least there aren't any flying no-clip enemies.

I think I've already heard "The flames in your eyes" etc. about fifty times too many. "Nine Inch Nails taking a shower" is so true.

Still an amazing game, though. The weapons and bosses are by far the most fun and interesting of the series. Aside from one hellish switch hunt in the Leviathan's stomach, the obligatory puzzle bullshit is minimal and easy to get through.

[negativedge]

[Iammadmak]

[Lucaz]

While playin DMC3 a few weeks ago, I wanted to use different styles all the times, but I always went back to trickster. Swordmaster and gunslinger are nice and all, but they are mostly just new moves to improve your style, while a dodge move that was actually good and cancels your current animation always seemed much more useful, and pretty much necessary for bosses. I never bothered going near royal guard, not even once in any game I think I've bothered with things like guards and counters. Also I never really found much reason to use any weapon besides the sword, and later the gauntlets, nor any gun that wasn't the pistols.

I liked it a lot more than DMC 1, in good part because I didn't have to deal with the awful save and checkpoint system.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Royal Guard is theoretically the best style if you've got the reflexes of a robot. There are some insane superplay videos showing off its full potential. For most normal humans it's a pinnacle never to be reached.

DMC1 is a better game, for reasons which I cannot adequately articulate. Paging booji? (Though I'm not sure if it's his favorite either.)

[boojiboy7]

Personally I prefer 3, for the variety of weapons (which allows for some different playstyles than the DMC1 set)(though using anything other than sword+pistols takes some definite work if you aren't used to it) and the styles, though admittedly swordmaster/gunsligner are really just additional moves, and trickster/royal guard are the only two that actually change mechanics up significantly. Royal guard is pretty much the god style, though I have never taken the time to get perfect at it.

If you want to grind them up, running the first level over and over is a good way to familiarize yourself with a style, and eventually get enough points to just ignore having to worry about leveling at all (liked that DMC4 said fuck it to Dante needing to level the styles).

Lucaz, about the dodge move: every style has the classic roll, so if you get good enough at that (and really, it is stupidly good, if you keep its limits in mind), the trickster's dodge becomes less useful, but some of the other moves from trickster (the telelport) can be very useful with different weapon sets.

When it comes down to it, I enjoy the best of the DMC series (which in order of preference for me is 3, 1, 4, 2) for the way it lets me decide how I want to tackle things. So while I pick DMC3 as the favorite, the others have their moments (aside from 2, which I still think is a fun enough action game, but doesn't really hold up to the level of 3 and 1 and parts of 4 for letting me mess around), and 1 certainly has a special place as being the general "first" of its kind.

[GrimmSweeper]

Age of Empires Online. Played a good solid two hours going through the first 5 character levels of development. I was quite pleased with the automatic army formations, but it does hamper movement when you're first getting it organized. Problem is you aren't going to get any sort of challenge for quite some time, even after getting out of the tutorial stage.

My initial sense of Farmville + AoE was off, yeah. It's more free MMO + AoE what with all the powerful shit being locked away underneath micro-transactions. They advertise free, but you run into locked stuff early on in the bloody main quest line. It's far too invasive for my tastes. Though I have to admit that this RTS style is perfect for the casual player: Not really demanding on the micro.

Stopped, never playing it again.

[Toptube]

I played the demo for that warhammer game thing on PSN. It takes the basic setup of a dual stick shooter, and puts it into a Diablo like level design, where you mostly freely run around in linear rooms and use shooter mechanics to kill the enemies. There's a little bit of scripting added in to try and make the ecounters feel more dynamic.


Its pretty dumb on your own. It might be ok with a second player, working together on a higher difficulty. But I mean, that could be said about many crappy games.

[Adilegian]

I'm hoping that I'll have time to play some Deus Ex 1 tonight, but I don't know. I've been just past the Statue of Liberty mission for about a week and a half now before moving.
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[GrimmSweeper]

Pushing forward with Just Cause 2. I was nearly done a session two days ago when a base clearing went all to hell with helicopters so I decided to just fly on my parachute (no DLC, just zipline) tossing explosives in an attempt to take down a general and some fuel tanks. Nothing hit, but I stayed alive for much longer than I thought I would. Eventually I tossed an explosive right in front of a wall where I was about to hit, so I just exploded it and died. Not a second later, a helicopter missile hit me. Nothing "physics phun" happened. Up to 51% now.

Also pushing forward with solo queue shenanigans in League of Legends, seeing if I can make the Silver bracket before the close of Season 1. It's unlikely but I have a feeling that I still have miles to go before I hit my average ELO range.

SuperWes get to 30.
ArOne, I see that sexy Blitzcrank avvie of yours a lot but never remember to ask you if you play often. Do you?

[ArOne]

I'm on occasionally but I'm on one of those shared free apartment networks where my ping can easily excede 800 during peak hours. My best times seem to be late morning when most have gone to school or after 1am. I go by Roger Orland so add me anytime. I'm currently level 27 and have a mish mash of runes. I love blitz but I always bomb hard with him. I have a pretty good track record with Morgana and Lux.
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[Rud31]

I polished off Sly 1 and sent it back without touching Sly 2 and 3. I felt pretty confident that nothing in the sequels was going to impress me. I do have irrational love of Jak 2 and 3 but the important thing about all of Sony's Platformers (Jak, Ratchet, Sly, Ape Escape) and that tugs at me every time I play one is how root they are. It also bothers me with Uncharted and the Prince of Persia series. There's no room for failure because your every jump is planned for in a meticulous way. There is never doubt in playing the game and stepping outside of what the developers wants you to do has you hit a brickwall pretty damn fast.

For Sly a game that is supposedly about thieving I would have thought I would be collecting skills and knowledge that I ended up applying the final level not actually COLLECTING skills and knowledge that I don't even need to use or ever apply to complete the game.

All of the Sony Platformers are REALLY GOOD kids games. The lack of freedom in them has always tugged at the back of my mind. I guess the reason I prefer Jak 2 is that if you stuck Jak in an empty square white room he would still be fun to move around with for a while. Mario (especially Sunshine Mario) would absolutely be fun to move around in a white room. I don't think a quarter of game developers give enough attention to "white room entertainment."
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