[elvis.shrugged]

I played through Catherine for the first time this weekend. It took me about fourteen hours, and I got the True Lover ending. Great game. The only thing that bothered me was the lack of a score-attack mode for the Golden Playhouse levels after you beat the game, unless I missed something? It would be fun to be able to play them divorced from the story mode.
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[jamie]

well there is the babel mode which isn't the same as the main game, but it is still fun if you like the gameplay. i did like the gameplay, even though i pretty much hated every aspect of the narrative.

[elvis.shrugged]

Yeah, but you need to get gold trophies in Normal to unlock stages in Babel mode, and I beat it on Easy...anyway, that should give me something to aim for next, besides additional endings. Thanks! I actually liked the narrative, even if the writing was shaky at various points.
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[Rud31]

"You treat peoples hearts like bottles on a shelf."
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[Renfrew]

Creeping and flying around the city in Arkham City is fun. Playing as the extra characters in the challenge maps is fun. I wish that instead of having this big long epic Batman story with every Batman villain ever, the game would have been set up as just an open world game where you could play as any of the characters and engaged in shorter missions. It's something I want to talk about if we ever do a licensed games podcast
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[Party Hat Jones]

Worked my way through Brütal Legend for the first time today. Even though it has its fair share of issues, it is just so undeniably metal that I can really forgive most of it.

[Ronnoc]

It's really not, though

[another coma]

[allensmithee]

[8128]

mooonster huuunterrrr
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[Ymer]

Tried out the Prologus thing for Dissidia 2 and I'm actually surprised by how fun it can be. Lots of frustrating moments when the game seems to just refuse to do what you want but it can all be alleviated by unwinding with a few rounds of Kefka fireball spam (which the AI seems so incapable of handling) and all frustration will just flow away.

[MattCD42]

Was gonna play me some Disgiea on dat PSP but dead batteries, foiled again.
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[Drem]

[mauve]

best part of brutal legend is honestly the soundtrack

which they make you unlock

with a scavenger hunt

fuck videogames
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[Ronnoc]

[another god]

Brutal Legend made me never want to buy a Double Fine game.
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[Rud31]

contrary: Brutal Legend is the only Double Fine game I've liked.
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[Broco]

[field balm]

FINALLY picked up Nier after ignoring huge threads on it on every board i visit forever. Just got my first ending, there is a lot about this game i want to talk about but that has probably already been discussed! P. excited to read the thread eventually.
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[Mikey]

[Loki Laufeyson]

radirgy is a lot more addictive than i remember it being

tiring, though, constantly tapping b while holding a
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[Guillotine]

In a particularly apathetic moment of my life, I'm half playing the AAA titles that PSN + gives to me.

Sleeping Dogs was nice for a few hours, but everything that wasn't grappling was boring.

DOA5: well probably doesn't really count as a AAA title. Uncertain about what to do with it (easy joke here), don't feel like learning a new fighter for a series I don't care for that probably nobody plays etc. So I just play around with the story mode, sorta mashing buttons. It's interesting to see VF Sarah in this, she really makes the other girls look bad. She's still a legitimate supermodel but she has the strong, athletic body that make her kicking your ass absolutely plausible and likely, while the other girls have this glamorous samey build.

Mass Effect 3: I don't like cover shooters or Bioware, but I'll eat any scifi game I guess. This is so well done, I'm impressed by the production values, now I can be a little tiny bit more tolerant when people goes 'lol ps2 grafix' about my favourite games. Some story bits seem interesting, I had to operate a couple of rather drastic decisions, not sure about the long term influence. The design is mortally boring when you come from playing Anarchy Reigns. But yeah very nice.


And then I still play a ton of Anarchy Reigns. It's heartbreaking to not see this game topping the charts, being the next big thing. Because it totally could have.

[The King]

中国象棋 (Chinese Chess) for NES
by TXC Corporation
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[another god]

[Rud31]

Enjoyed Jack Black's tone even if I didn't lol at a lot of the jokes. Everywhere was cool to look at. I didn't feel like it wasted an environment on being boring. I'm not heavily invested into metal music/culture so I enjoyed it from the sidelines. Everything was wrapped up in about 12 hours. The RTS sections didn't make me go crazy with stress. They weren't that fun. It was a cool world.

I thought psychonauts was horrible to play and I'm probably the board's biggest 3D mascot platformer fan. I sat through it stone faced once and a few years later tried it again and gave up about 5 hours in because I hated every second I was playing it. It wasn't conductive to my off time.

So Maybe. Just maybe my at the time conditions contributed to my opinion on the games.
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[Ronnoc]

How did you manage to put 12 hours in Brutal Legend? I 100%'d that bugger in something like 6

[misadventurous]

Psychonauts is both an incredible adventure game and a terrible platformer all at once. i wish there was more emphasis on the former than the latter within the thing itself. Whispering Rocks has got to be one of the finest overworlds ever produced, though.

it's one of those games i'm not sure i'll ever play again, because i don't want reality to spoil the fond memories i have of it.

[thestage]

I think I gave psychonauts about 2 hours before I threw it in a corner somewhere

[Moogs]

I seem to remember always picking shit up in Psychonauts, but it's nowhere near as bad as DK64.

[Mikey]

Psychonauts genuinely made me laugh a few times, but it was a chore.

[Mr.Stevenson]

[Brooks]

They tried to come up with some memorably novel scenery and mostly succeeded

[Mr. Mechanical]

Finished 100%ing GTA IV a few weeks back and now I'm waiting for Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories (and a component cable for PS2 why have I not been playing PS2 through component yet) to arrive in the mail sometime in the next week or so.

In the meantime I'm just kind of dabbling in a little of this and a little of that with a regular helping of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on XBLA. I found out that if your internet connection drops out while you're playing then the Xbox will revert to recognizing the game as a free trial and you can't save. Found that out the other day when the wireless connection I'm running the 360 on got spotty for a minute and dropped out.

I don't know if it was Digital Eclipse's doing (they did the SotN port) or something that Microshit does as standard operating procedure for all their XBLA games (you can't even play XBLIG games without being connected, for instance) but I saw the future of the next-next gen consoles and it's just as shit and anti-consumer as it looks like.
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[BotageL]

I believe that's a "feature" which happens if you originally bought the game on a different 360 console.
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[Renfrew]

Yeah you have to go through some complicated process through the Microsoft website and your console to relicense the game for your new system
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[Mr. Mechanical]

[Guillotine]

wow Mass Effect 3 multiplayer sure is fun!
D-don't misunderstand, I don't like you or anything Bioware, I-I just

[Moogs]

[Brooks]

One of my regular Gears buddies always did but we could never fathom why re: Baird usage

Hear tell they've pissed around a bit with the new one - no stopping power for weapons, no down-but-not-out status, no Locust skins/models in regular i.e. not Horde/Onslaught multi... I'm not rushing to get back into it