[misadventurous]

[tiburon]

[CubaLibre]

The people who think this game is awesome. If you don't think there are a whole bunch of people who think that game is awesome, bless your dear heart.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[The King]

started Link's Awakening (GB)
It got mentioned in the IC podcast, and sounded interesting.
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[GcDiaz]

[MattCD42]

Time to boot up the Bouncer again.
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[Dracko]

I'm pretty sure Corrypt is a puzzle game that's not designed to be completed.
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[notbov]

Fairy Bloom Freesia was totally awesome, then I accidentally glitched the game out by ending a day by throwing an enemy and found out it doesn't autosave

modern gaming has ruined me.

Then I spent 30 miuntes getting back to where I was and felt like a minor deity of fairy combat.
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[L]

[A New Duck]

[Dracko]

[notbov]

Played through Freesia again on NG+ hard mode. This game is the gift that keeps on giving.

If you liked Treasure's Astro Boy game at all, you owe yourself to at least grab the demo and give this a play
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[Seldon]

Nothing wrong with being an elitist really. Anyway, played several games since last time I posted here, all of them bought during the Steam holiday sale, which is the only time I'd really purchase any game anyway.

- CS:GO. Not my cup of tea. It's just CS: Source with prettier textures and better shaders. Also, I'm too used to aim-down-sight to give it up now.

- Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Very rich, detailed environments (at least over standard fare), the stealth element was enjoyable when I didn't dwell on how contrived it was (re: vent shafts that lead only from one room to the adjoining one, etc.), and the cover system was cool even though it was disorienting at first to switch between 1st and 3rd person perspectives. The hacking minigame wasn't too bad, but I wish it took up a smaller fraction of play time. Interesting variety of weapons, but automatics had limited utility due to scarcity of ammo, and laser/plasma rifles didn't show up until very late game. They should really have done away with the pre-rendered cutscenes; they don't look very good on a 1920x1080 monitor and there was one for practically every major plot point. The story was somewhat interesting, as it raised questions about the ethics of transhumanism/augmentation, but of course simplified and framed them in a way so that even a five year old child could grasp. I rolled my eyes at the Illuminati/FEMA camp crap, but didn't really pay too much attention to it. Still, fairly decent game overall.

- Shogun 2. Campaign maps in the Total War series were always terrible: economic micromanagement is really time-sucking and the diplomacy always boils down to "declare war on everyone/everyone always declares war on you" regardless of alliances or whatever. Battles are way too quick, given the really long load times and setup beforehand; what's the point of fussing over formations if it's just going to boil down to troop quality/numbers/firepower in the end and be over in 30 seconds? Sieges are fun, but just feels like a more refined version of a tower defense game since the enemy usually throws everything it has at you instead of doing the sensible thing and retreating. You take much less casualties if you auto-resolve everything where you have favorable odds. There are way too many DLCs; even worse, some of them just unlock factions which are already in the game (in previous TW titles, almost all factions were playable, and even if one wasn't, someone would have made a mod to allow you to play as them anyway). On a positive note, ship combat is extremely fun to watch, especially in Fall of the Samurai, and the soundtrack is excellent.

[Felix]

Just ran through NG+ 1-1 and 4-1 in DeS after having not played it for about a year in order to celebrate its PSN release.

It feels a lot simpler than DkS than I remember! Still dig it, just surprised by the comparative simplicity.

I got the Northern Regalia before finishing NG on this character so I'm just going around tearing up all the PWWT events this week.

[:cryface:]

Just started Persona 4. So far, I'm really, really liking it. My biggest fear was that it was going to be some corny RPG where everyone knows everything and lays it out for you but nobody knows how to solve a specific problem. There is much more mystery to everything and the breaks with school and home life are compelling diversions. The only problem is that I'm pretty sure I'll quit playing the game now that I've finally gone through the meager efforts of setting up PS2 emulation.

I'm pretty sure the highlight was Biker Guy getting hit in the nads and there not being some over embellishing moment where it zooms in on comedy. That felt really grounded.

and then I fell through a TV.

[shrugtheironteacup]

Fifty would like to know why Tony Yayo is taking cover from the shutter they're about to open.















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[Jigsaw]

BOTS is so good.

[Brooks]

It really isn't too awful. Can tell the studio had the laffs putting it together

Think it's the only acutely self-aware bullshit vidcon I've appreciated in recent memory

[CubaLibre]

Bitch took my skull.

[special blend]

got monster house'd on the 28th floor in shiren, died, proceeded to go full retard and threw a hammer at the wall, something i learned from violent video games no doubt
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[Deets]

[ionustron]

Someday I'll have a session of Gradius V that doesn't end with my thumb bleeding.

[Moogs]

I finished Spec Ops: The Line. I liked it; probably one of my favorite games of 2012, really. I mean, it has real choices that are neither right or wrong and aren't subjecting the player to pressing a button and watching an outcome. Sometimes you aren't even aware you have a choice, as the game never throws text on the screen saying "do this, or do that." I think it's smarter than people give it credit for.

[shrugtheironteacup]

save us fifty ;-;
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[Felix]

[Dracko]

[Brooks]

[Teflon]

I thought it'd be fun to stream a real HK radio station while playing Sleeping Dogs and it paid off in the best possible way: Chinese localized Avril Lavigne over the hugely melodramatic wedding scene.

It's pretty frustrating how much less than the sum of its parts this game ends up. It won't let me buy a damn hat because I don't have the XP. Everyone is a giant punch-sponge. There's cover shooting..

[Ronnoc]

Well, there's not really cover-shooting so much as jump-over-cover shooting. There was a fight late in the game where I had slow motion a full minute after the bad guys kept coming because the game is goofy-easy.

[boojiboy7]

[Isfet]

Aero Porter is great

[Teflon]

[Greng]

I'm not sure I want to go through here.
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[BotageL]

You really don't want to do that. Not now. As the sign (might) say, "Someday..."
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[Greng]

I was tempted by the items in plain sight just down the stairs but I know how Souls games work so I'll be back for them later.
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[sponkmonkey]

You can actually get a good deal of them right now. If you're careful. You're still gonna die figuring out where the safe spots are, of course.
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[BotageL]

Right, you already have several solutions available... they're just all pretty tedious.
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[sponkmonkey]

I'm pretty sure that if you lure the red dragon out to the bridge where the dreglings are and run back fast enough you can grab the lower set of items. The dragon won't come back until you're on your way back to the stairs. That's how I always do it, I think? I should know this since I started a new character just about two months ago but I can't remember all the details.

[tiburon]

So I've started speedrunning Halo 3: ODST! hopefully I'll buy a capture card at some point so i can stream my attempts. For now i'm just trying to learn the strats
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[:cryface:]

[sponkmonkey]

Talking about Demon's Souls made me want to start it up again, so I thought I'd finish the run I started two months ago. I originally started out with the idea of a Jeanne d'Arc character, so: miracles, basic longsword (blessed, if I pump faith anyway) and kite shield, and armor limited to chainmail and plate. Eventually I also got a dragon claymore for two-handing and enough endurance to quickroll around because they were just too much fun to pass on.

I ended up doing 4-2 and 4-3 and was just about to give the Dirty colossus a whack when I got stuck in the level geometry just outside the fog gate. I didn't have any problems with it, but man, 5-2 isn't really a level I like to play through twice in its entirety.